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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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