The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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