Leading expeditions across the globe, French explorer, sailor and researcher Jacques Y. Cousteau discovered first-hand the complexity and beauty of life on land and under the sea, and contemplated the footprint left by the human activity in the twentieth century. These are some of the best phrases that he bequeathed us.
"The happiness of the bee and that of the dolphin is to exist. The happiness of man is to discover this and marvel at it."
"It is not necessary to civilize science; we need to use science to civilize civilization."
"Countless times I have had to explain to journalists that our team had no objective, no idea what we were going to find on a mission; if as an explorer he had known what he was going to find, he would not have gone. In the same way, the scientist he ventures into the cell, the atom or the cosmos without knowing what awaits him. "
"The reason I have made movies about the underwater world is simply my belief that people protect what they love. But we only love what we know."
"Many people attack the sea, I make love to it."
"What one person does not discover, another will."
"Closing our eyes to nature only makes us blind in a fool's paradise."
"Probably more damage has been done to the Earth in the 20th century than in all previous human history."
