Top 74 Quotes About Jacques Cousteau
#1. When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Enric Sala
#2. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#3. See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.
Steve Irwin
#4. The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
James Cameron
#5. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#6. Here I go, deep type flow,
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#7. He's not lying. I can assure you, he's part fish. Jacques Cousteau has nothing on him. Aquaman, either. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
Freeman Dyson
#9. We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#10. 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
#11. Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to exploring and protecting our seas, in large part through documentary film.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#12. In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#13. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#14. There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.
Jacques Cousteau
#15. Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#16. The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#17. Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#18. Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#19. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#25. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#26. 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
#27. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#28. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#29. Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#30. No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#31. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#32. 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-Yves Cousteau
#34. I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#35. 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
#36. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#37. 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-Yves Cousteau
#38. May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#39. 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-Yves Cousteau
#40. I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#41. 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-Yves Cousteau
#42. 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
#43. Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#45. It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#49. There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#52. And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#53. 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
#54. I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#55. It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#59. 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
#62. Sometime 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
#63. 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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#64. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#65. 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
#66. The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#68. 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
#69. However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#70. There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#71. 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-Yves Cousteau
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