The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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 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 COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
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 COUSTEAUIf you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUwe will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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