Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Suicide, Blessed, Ocean

• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

• If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Respect, Civilization, Water

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1972). “The whale, mighty monarch of the sea”

• Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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