Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

No 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.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.