- 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.
- 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. [Interview, 17 July 1971]
- 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.
- 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.
- The sea is the universal sewer. [on the sea as a place "where all kinds of pollution wind up," to House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 28 January 1971]
- The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
- We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
- No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity
- A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
- I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
- People protect what they love.
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