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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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
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Montalon
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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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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The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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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 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 best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
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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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
People protect what they love.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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