Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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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.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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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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