Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

• When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Men

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Silly, Men, Animal

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1973). “Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence”, Doubleday Books

• May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Funny, Animal, May

• How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Sea

• To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Law

• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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