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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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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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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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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