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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature, Sea, Wonder
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Life, Water, Forget
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
Nature, Happiness, Bee
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
Generosity, Realize, Concert
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Science, Rather, Scientist
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Environmental, Life, Water
People protect what they love.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Love, Protect
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Face, Universal, National
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, Looking
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
Work, Hope, Future
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
Environmental, Nature
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, Gravity
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Sea, Hunting, Farming
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Stupidity, Discover, Involve
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
Sea, Land, Begin
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
Hope, Great, Sea
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, Reason, Lead
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, Plant, Hunting
The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Sea, Sewer, Universal
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
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Awareness, Countries, Came
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Abortion, Obstacle, Biggest
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Love, Sea, Attack
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Environmental, History
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Great, Animals, Himself
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Fact, Intense, National

Biography

Nationality: French
Type: Explorer
Born: June 11, 1910
Died: June 25, 1997

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