Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

People protect what they love.

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

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

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

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

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

We must go and see for ourselves.

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

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

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.

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

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

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans

The sea is the universal sewer.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

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.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.