Category - Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Jacques Yves Cousteau Science

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

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques Yves Cousteau Nature Science

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 Nature

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

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques Yves Cousteau Love

People protect what they love.

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Intelligence Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Happiness Jacques Yves Cousteau Nature

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

Great Hope Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Future Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Faith Future Hope Jacques Yves Cousteau

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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