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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Conservation Earth Life Nature Pollution

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

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Nature Ocean

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

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Great Sea Man

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.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Work Future Faith

People protect what they love.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau People Protect

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

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Sea Wonder Forever

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Happiness Man Know

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-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Science Man Looking

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.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Mother Environmental Job

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau I Am Rather Scientists

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Man Stupidity Discover

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Environmental Earth Human

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.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Greed Face Way

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Road Survival Destiny
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