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Jacques-Yves Cousteau46 quotes“The sea is the universal sewer.”
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau 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.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau We 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 CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau 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 CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau It 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 CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau 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.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau
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