Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quote

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.


Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180


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...

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...

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...

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...