Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• 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 Yves Cousteau

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• 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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  Ocean, Hands, Sea

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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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Speech by Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas on the occasion of the signing of the Belém Statement, Lisbon, europa.eu. July 13, 2017.

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• 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.

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  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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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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  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• People protect what they love.

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  People, Protect

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• The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

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  Nature, Travel, Angel

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• In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

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  Moon, Sea, Space

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• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Leadership, Opportunity, Men

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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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

  Thinking, Play, Serious Things

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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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  Two, Excess Baggage, People

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• We must go and see for ourselves.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Nature, Adventure

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 26 June 1997

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• The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

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  Motivational, Positive, Succeed

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• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

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• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Myopic, Logic

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• Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Change, Running

  "The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure". Book by Frédéric Dumas and Jacques Cousteau, 1953.

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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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  Giving, Life Is, Complex Relationships

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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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  Happy, Men, Bees

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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. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

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  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.

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  Real, Sea, Rivers

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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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Respect, Civilization, Water

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1972). “The whale, mighty monarch of the sea”

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• When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

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  Ocean, Animal, Men

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