“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.”
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves Cousteau 
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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