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Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau wonder
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 men
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 art
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau life
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
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
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
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau life
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
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 nature
People protect what they love.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau love
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 world
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau art
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
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau intelligence
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 hope
The sea is the universal sewer.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau sea
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 sin
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau wit
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.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau future
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau love
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau men
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau believe
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 psychology
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau wit

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