If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo 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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUA lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWhat 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.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt 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 COUSTEAUWe 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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