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Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau AC (French: [ʒak iv kusto]; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.

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There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement

Educational, Dolphins, Captivity, Gained, Mankind

The sea is not a bargain basement.

Ocean, Sea, Basements, Basement, Bargain

Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

Nature, Wall, Blue, Sea, Living, Surface

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

Ocean, Oceans, Possible, Sea, Sick, Years

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

Extraordinary, Keep, Leadership, Man, Men, Opportunity

To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

Animal, Good, Law, Men, Restate, Way

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Peace, Humanity, Warfare, Act, Organize

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

Complex, Complex Relationships, Giving, Life, Life Is

There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

Attitude, Animal, Men, Interpretation, Savage, Flesh

The future is in the hands of those who explore. . . and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

Beauty, Hands, Humankind, Infinite, Ocean, Sea

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

Love, Make, Ocean, People, Sea

It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

Day, Energy, Lamentable, People, Per, Population

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying. )

Dream, Night, Wings, Halt, Favorably, Aqualung

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Hope, Have Faith, Logical, Beings, Human

I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

Science, Air, Space, Finger, Rolls, Altered

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer. . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

Beautiful, Cancer, Ideas, Horrible, Population, People

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

Angel, Dive, Like, Nature, Physical, Travel

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.

Curiosity, Curious, Know, Man, Men, Science

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

Awareness, Country, Different, Environment, Environmental, Outlets

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Environmental, Overconsumption, Overpopulation, Population Problem, Today, Underlie

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