Best Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
- Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going… All
- The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Beach
- 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… Beneath
- People protect what they love. Inspirational
- The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Bee
- 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… Aquarium
- When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Extraordinary
- In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day. Climate Change
- If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from… Change
- Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. Air
- No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. Discover
- Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. All
- 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 the… All
- We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Cycle
- What 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. All
- A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. Attack
- It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world… Concert
- We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -… All
- However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. Day
- I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. Believe
- If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and… Beings
- The sea is the universal sewer. Conservation
- I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. Impresario
- The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. Abortion
- Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. All