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With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.
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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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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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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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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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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