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 COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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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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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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