Quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

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.

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

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

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

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

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

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

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

The sea is the universal sewer.

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

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.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

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.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

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

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

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans