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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.
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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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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With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.
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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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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 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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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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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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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.
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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 best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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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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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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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 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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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