I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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People protect what they love.
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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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