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• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

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  Suicide, Blessed, Ocean

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• The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

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  Happy, Men, Bees

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• The sea is the universal sewer.

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  Ocean, Sea, Conservation

  1971 Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 28 Jan.

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• No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

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  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

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  Giving, Life Is, Complex Relationships

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• When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

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  Ocean, Animal, Men

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• Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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  Damage Is Done, Earth, Century

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• If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

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  Respect, Civilization, Water

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1972). “The whale, mighty monarch of the sea”

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

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  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

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  Order, People, Would Be

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

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  Ocean, Sea, People

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• We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

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  Population Problem, Two, Roots

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• Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

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  Nature, Wall, Blue

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

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  Population Problem, Environmental, Today

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• There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

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  Educational, Dolphins, Captivity

  "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

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  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

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  People, Energy, Population

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• The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

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  Past, Other Worlds, Civilization

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• It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

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  Live Concerts, Generosity, Roles

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• The future of nutrition is found in the oceans

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  Ocean, Nutrition, Found

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

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  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

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  Peace, Humanity, Warfare

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• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

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  Believe, Men, Sea

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• Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

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  Growth, Environmental, Population

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