All Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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 and he is free.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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 same boat.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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 who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
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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 we have hope, and we can work.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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