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 COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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