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1. "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
2. "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." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
3. "People protect what they love." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
4. "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
5. "No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
6. "When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
7. "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
8. "In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
9. "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
10. "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." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
11. "No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
12. "Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
13. "The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
14. "A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
15. "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." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
16. "We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
17. "If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
18. "However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
19. "I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
20. "I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
21. "The sea is the universal sewer." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
22. "The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
23. "Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy." ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
24. "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" ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
25. "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.)" ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

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