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 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 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 COUSTEAUA lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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 COUSTEAUBut we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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 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 COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUI believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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 COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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