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.
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it’s going faster and faster, but we don’t know where.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans.