The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

- Jacques Cousteau

Inspiration

""The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.""

- Jacques Cousteau

Connection to Earth

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

Environment

"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

Environment