66 Quotes by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

We must go and see for ourselves.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans.

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.

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

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

Under water, man becomes an archangel.

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

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.