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People protect what they love.
The sea is the universal sewer.
We must go and see for ourselves.
The sea is not a bargain basement.
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
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.
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.
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.
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.
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.
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.