The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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 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 COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
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.
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 COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUFarming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhat 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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