Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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