The Awareness Of Our Environment Came Progressively

People Protect What They Love.

I Was Playing When I Invented The Aqualung. I Think Play Is The Most Serious Thing In The World.

It Is Fashionable Nowadays To Talk About The Endless Riches Of The Sea. The Ocean Is Regarded As A Sort Of Bargain Basement, But I Don't Agree With That Estimate. People Don't Realize That Water In The Liquid State Is Very Rare In The Universe. Away From Earth It Is Usually A Gas. This Moisture Is A Blessed Treasure, And It Is Our Basic Duty, If We Don't Want To Commit Suicide, To Preserve It.

I Swam Across The Rocks And Compared Myself Favorably With The Sars. To Swim Fishlike, Horizontally, Was The Logical Method In A Medium Eight Hundred Times Denser Than Air. To Halt And Hang Attached To Nothing, No Lines Or Air Pipe To The Surface, Was A Dream. At Night I Had Often Had Visions Of Flying By Extending My Arms As Wings. Now I Flew Without Wings. (since That First Aqualung Flight, I Have Never Had A Dream Of Flying.)

When We Return Wild Animals To Nature, We Merely Return Them To What Is Already Theirs. For Man Cannot Give Wild Animals Freedom, They Can Only Take It Away.