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The sea is the universal sewer.
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
Filmmaker
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Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Montalon
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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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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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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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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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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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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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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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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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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.
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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.
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.
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