Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes & Sayings
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
— Jacques-Yves 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
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
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
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
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
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
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
— Jacques-Yves 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
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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
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
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
— 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 future of nutrition is found in the oceans
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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
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 sea is not a bargain basement.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We must go and see for ourselves.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The sea is the universal sewer.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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
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
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
