Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• The sea is the universal sewer.

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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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• 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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  Tags in Statements, Hunters, Problems

• 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

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  Tags in Bee, Happiness

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

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

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• People protect what they love.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

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  Tags in Discover, Involve, Stupidity

• 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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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  Tags in Human, Mankind, Damage

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

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• 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

• It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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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