Quotes from Jacques Cousteau

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

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

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

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

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.

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.

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.