Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“All life is part of a complex chain of being, and we are all dependent on each other.”

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

“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea.”

“The sea is the universal sewer.”

“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.”

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

“If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“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.”

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

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

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

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

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

“We must go and see for ourselves.”

“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.”