If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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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.
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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