The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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 forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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 sea is the universal sewer.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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