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Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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People protect what they love.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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