All Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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 by playing your role in the concert.
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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 this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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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.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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 the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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