The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

People protect what they love.

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

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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.