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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
Biologist
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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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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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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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If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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 sea is the universal sewer.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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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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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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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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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.
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