The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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