Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUBut we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUNo 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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUFrom 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 COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhat 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.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe 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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUBut we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUA lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU