Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Once, Sea, Wonder

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Free, Earth, Birth

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Order, Population, Eliminate

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

May, Sea, Normal

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Change, Greed, Face

People protect what they love.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Life, Keep, Reason

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Stupidity, Discover, Tries

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life, Two, Become

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Happiness, Wonder, Exist

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Love, Sea, 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 by playing your role in the concert.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Yourself, Through, Others

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life, Forget, Water

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Great, Hope, Before

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Science, Nature, Through

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Faith, Work, Hope

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

History, Human, Done

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sea, Hunting, Using

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Become, Fact, National

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Face, National, Universal

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature, Mother, Enemy

The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sea, Universal, Sewer

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Human, Study, Lead

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Great, Himself, Regard

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Different, Countries, Awareness

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: June 11, 1910

Died: June 25, 1997

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