The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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People protect what they love.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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 forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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