Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

• 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

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

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  Tags in Bee, Happiness

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

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  Tags in Farming, Hunting, Sea, Barbarian

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

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• The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

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  Tags in Survival, Smack, Destiny

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

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.

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• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

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  Tags in Fault, Replaced, Greed, Insect

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

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  Tags in Essentials, Water

• No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

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  Tags in Duplicate, Marine, Ocean

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

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  Tags in Interdependence, Sustainability, Shrink, Environmental, Face, Universal, Believe

• 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

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  Tags in Reason

• The sea is the universal sewer.

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  Tags in Sewers, Sea, Universal

• The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

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

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

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• 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.

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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  Tags in Once, Sea

• It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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  Tags in Discover, Generosity, Violin, Yourself

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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  Tags in Discover, Involve, Stupidity

Jacques Yves Cousteau (29)

Birth:	11th June, 1910
Death:	25th June, 1997
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Documentary Filmmaker, Explorer, Naval Officer, Photographer, Researcher

About

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France. He was a French naval officer, explorer, photographer and documentary filmmaker who studied the sea. Although he is most famous to us from his television programmes, he also co-developed the aqua-lung, and pioneered marine conservation as a political and scientific priority. He described his underwater world research in a series of books, perhaps the most successful being his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, published in 1953. He directed several documentary films include: Epaves, Danger Under the Sea, The Silent World(Won- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), and World Without Sun(Won- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature).

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