Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#become #cans #depends #essential #fluids

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

#birth #carries #earth #free #gravity

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#eliminate #must #order #per #population

People protect what they love. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#people #protect

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#does #his #intelligence #involve #man

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#forget #life #water

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

#after #curious #going #keyhole #know

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

#disappear #face #fault #globe #go

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#i #lot #love #make #people

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

#himself #keep #lead #life #man