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 More Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau More Quotes From Jacques Yves Cousteau No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. Jacques Yves Cousteau wisdom stupid men 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 hunting ocean animal 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 ocean animal men 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 dolphins captivity educational 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 water civilization 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 bees happy men In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day. Jacques Yves Cousteau would-be order people I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. Jacques Yves Cousteau good-morning miracle life The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed. Jacques Yves Cousteau succeed motivational positive We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. Jacques Yves Cousteau population-problem roots two 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 future hope faith We must go and see for ourselves. Jacques Yves Cousteau nature adventure Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today Jacques Yves Cousteau population-problem environmental today 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 live-concerts generosity roles We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Jacques Yves Cousteau cycle-of-life water-of-life rain 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 greed humanity way 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 fishing sea lakes 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 population energy people 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 curiosity men science 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 excess-baggage two people
