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
rain cycle-of-life water-of-life
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
life religious house
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.
giving life-is complex-relationships
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.
life change running
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
life good-morning miracle
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
animal men sea
How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.
order eugenics wiping-out
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
men animal law
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.
people population world
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.
ocean men hands
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
country environmental different
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
growth environmental damage
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
summer dream night
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.
hunting sea barbarians
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.