Cousteau Quotes
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If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can't pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
— James Cameron
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.
— Fabien Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.
— Fabien Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
People protect what they love.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.
— Alexandra Cousteau
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
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
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We must go and see for ourselves.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
The sea is not a bargain basement.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
He's not lying. I can assure you, he's part fish. Jacques Cousteau has nothing on him. Aquaman, either. (Solin)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
People will protect what they love.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
The sea is the universal sewer.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Under water, man becomes an archangel.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Here I go, deep type flow, Jacques Cousteau could never get this low. — Ol' Dirty Bastard
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.
— Philippe Cousteau Jr.
