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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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
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For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.
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There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate they push against all the varied shores on Earth.
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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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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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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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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
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All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
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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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Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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