The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUNo 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 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 COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUA lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUwe will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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 COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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 COUSTEAUWhen one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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.
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