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Jacques Cousteau Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Happiness, Existence, Joy, Appreciation, Wonder, Wisdom, Nature
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Water, Air, Nature, Pollution, Earth, Life
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
— Jacques Cousteau, National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Wildlife: From Your Back Door to the Great Outdoors
Tagged: Ocean, beach, Beach Lovers
“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists.”
— Jacques Cousteau, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
Tagged: Nature, glory, Belief, God, Existence
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Farming, Hunting, Sea, Fishing, barbarians
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
— Jacques Cousteau, Christian Science Monitor
Tagged: Scientist, role, Curiosity, Nature
“Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”
— Jacques Cousteau, Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence
Tagged: Man, animal, delicacy, food
“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.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Life, Relationship, Connection, Dependence
“Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course.”
— Jacques Cousteau, The Silent World
Tagged: Life, Change, Embracing Change, Path
“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.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: History, Nature, Fighting To Survive, Protecting Our Environment
“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Life, Absurd, Logic, short term, Wisdom, Thoughts, plans
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: ability, Direction, strength, Water, Underwater
“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.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: planting, Farming, herding, Hunting
“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Behavior, human beings, extinction, Greed
“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 Cousteau
Tagged: Birth, gravity, Earth, Freedom
“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Reason, Oppurtunities, Life, sharing, Comradeship, Relationship, Friendship
“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Generosity, Discovery, Opening Up, Roles We Play
“I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: Ocean, Pollution, Life, sickness
“The sea is the universal sewer.”
— Jacques Cousteau, Declaring the sea to be "where all kinds of pollution wind up", to the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics
Tagged: Sea, Pollution, Sewer
“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Tagged: preparation, Life, plan, Long term plan, Earth, saving our planet, Problem, solution
“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know why this deleterious rumor has been systematically repeated, but its very existence is an ugly cancer upon the face of science.”
— Jacques Cousteau, Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence
Tagged: Rumor, False Information, Science, Truth
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