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

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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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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

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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

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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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