The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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 COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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 COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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 COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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 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 COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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