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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
zoologist, explorer, filmmaker, innovator, photographer, conservationist, oceanographer, writer, inventor, screenwriter, Officer of the French Navy, marine biologist, engineer, biologist, film director, world traveler, film producer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1910 – 1997
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.
All Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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
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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
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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
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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
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People protect what they love.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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
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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
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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