"I said that the oceans were sick but……" — 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 be life - but they're getting sicker every year."
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62 Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques Yves Cousteau has 62 quotes on this site.
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
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It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000…
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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every…
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There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow…
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I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to…
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually…
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Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an…
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware…
— David Attenborough
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
— Jeff Bridges
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
— Edmund Burke
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy…
— Dick Cheney
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The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with…
— Joel Sartore
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and,…
— Sylvia Earle
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad…
— Sylvia Earle
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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
— Sylvia Earle
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I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
— Sylvia Earle
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