The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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.
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.
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.
The United Nation’s goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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.
The sea is the universal sewer.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
I said that the oceans were sick but they’re not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans – there will always be life – but they’re getting sicker every year.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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.
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.