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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.
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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Marine Biologist
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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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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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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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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