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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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More quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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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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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to 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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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 wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
People protect what they love.
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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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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
