Jean-Michel Cousteau Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

Source : "Jean-Michel Cousteau Heads Beach Clean-Up for Earth Day". Interview with Debbie L. Sklar, patch.com. Apr 19, 2012.

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“We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“People will protect what they love.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.”
-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”

“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”