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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhen one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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