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

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.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself

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.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

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.

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

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.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

People protect what they love.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

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.

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans

May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

The sea is not a bargain basement.

We must go and see for ourselves.

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

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

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

Under water, man becomes an archangel.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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