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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
Biologist
Conservationist
Engineer
Explorer
Film Director
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Marine Biologist
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.
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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 United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
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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 happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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.
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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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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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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.
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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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People protect what they love.
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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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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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