We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
It 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 Cousteau Copy Share Image
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
