Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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People protect what they love.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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