Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau AC 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth11 June 1910
CountryFrance
Jacques Yves Cousteau quotes about
live-concerts generosity roles
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.
ocean sea conservation
The sea is the universal sewer.
damage-is-done earth century
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
motivational positive succeed
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
ocean years sick
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.
greed humanity way
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.
educational captivity would-be
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
rain cycle-of-life water-of-life
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
leadership opportunity men
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
driving ethics bigs
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
media nuclear submarines
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.
ocean nutrition found
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
order people would-be
In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
ocean men free-diving
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free,