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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
Conservationist
Engineer
Explorer
Film Director
Filmmaker
Innovator
Inventor
Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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 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.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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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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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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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.
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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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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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