Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

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• I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always…
• The sea is not a bargain basement.
• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The…
• 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 laugh.…
• It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is…
• Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national…
• There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of…
• I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
• If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
• The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for…
• Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won…
• May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
• 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…
• A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know…
• Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks…
• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I…

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