We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Jacques Cousteau

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Jacques Cousteau

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course.

Jacques Cousteau

I believe that national sovereignities will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Jacques Cousteau

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

Jacques Cousteau

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

Jacques Cousteau

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Jacques Cousteau

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

Jacques Cousteau