Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the… — 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
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
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… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
