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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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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In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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People protect what they love.
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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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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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
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