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Ocean Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can…
- The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
- 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…
- 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…
- Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- 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…
- A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
- We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -…
- The sea is the universal sewer.
- The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in…
- For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive,…
More Ocean Quotes
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales. — Mayim Bialik
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. — Ambrose Bierce
- All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries… — Elizabeth Bishop
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a… — H. P. Blavatsky
- There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken… — Heston Blumenthal
- The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Unknown Author