Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Life Quotes

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We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The adventure of life as explored by man is truly a mystery tale. As in any good detective story, the evidence has been present all along but not until many apparently unrelated facts were put together could logical conclusions solve the mystery.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

From the vast expanses of its surface waters to its beaches and marshes and tidelands and mangrove swamps, from its many thousands of miles of rocky shores to its deepest and darkest abyss, the sea produces life in fantastic abundance.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau