Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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.
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.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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.
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.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.