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 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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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 COUSTEAUIf we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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 COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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 COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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