81 result(s) for Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes.
"The future is in the hands of those who explore."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different stories, and at different times."
"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."
"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, which is the mentality of greed."
"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."
"For the first time my soul was on fire to know, to renounce the self that I had met until now and to dedicate myself to something higher, to those mysteries that the sea had to reveal."
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"Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to Earth. But man only has to sink beneath the surface and he is free."
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where a man is never alone, for he can feel life quivering all about him."
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope."
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
"Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing."
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore."
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different speeds, but in the present state of traveling and information, and in spite of the slowness of the phenomena, we are now aware about our common global environment."
"Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't."
"The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum. And that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world."
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope."
"To understand a coral reef, you must imagine an undersea city as large as a metropolis."
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"When you like something, you enjoy it. When you enjoy it, you are engaged. When you are engaged, you are optimally productive. That's the motto; that's the way to happiness."
"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."
"The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched."
"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect."
"The focus on my wife came before everything else. My passion for the ocean, the mountains, nature, wildlife, chief negotiator, chief explorer."
"Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home."
"Our future is not in the stars but in our own oceans, and it’s not only being threatened, it’s being destroyed."
"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history."
"All important things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is."
"The important thing is to live life fully, be very convinced about everything you do, know that you are able to do it, and understand that you must do it."
"I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence."
"The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love."
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"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea."
"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."
"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."
"The shark is the most fearsome predator. It has been forged by nature to be the perfect killing machine. But man is always seeking to put himself on the same level as these monsters."
"The reality of life is that there is no secret, no magic numbers or hidden formula waiting to be uncovered. Life is a game of chance, and the only move we have is to play it well."
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."
"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."
"The happiness of the Earth is overwhelming when compared to the desires of man. Nature has given us all we need; it is up to us to preserve it for future generations."
"The sea is as near as we come to another world."
"Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home."
"The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
"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."
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man, it is to know that and to wonder at it."
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
"The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish."
"The sea is the universal sewer."
"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."
"The sea is the source of all life and the parallel of the spirit."
"The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed."
"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."
"All the human greatness and all the human folly have their roots in the sea."
"When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight."
"The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and humanity an infinite love."
"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."
"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."
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful."
"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."
"Water and air, the two fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
"Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the impact of pollution."
"The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for man an infinite love."
"The quality of life is determined by its activities."
"People protect what they love."
"Man must speak and understand the language of nature."
"An ocean traveler has no wish to state the unbearable beauty of one single day, nor to describe under what enchantment he was filled. I say only that the sea surpasses all."
"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
"It is wiser to invest in saltwater than in stocks and bonds."
"The best way to truly understand a problem is to become part of the solution."
"We have to change our attitudes towards the ocean. We have to regard it as no longer something to be exploited, but something to be protected."
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him as though they were fairy tales."
"When man invented the ship, he also invented the shipwreck"
"My father was right: to pilot a vesel, you must believe in something. And I believed in the sea."
"In the spring, the sea was always an invitation to adventure..."
"Nothing is more dangerous than a satisfied man"
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