The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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