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

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Cousteau

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Jacques Cousteau

The sea is the universal sewer.

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau

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

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

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

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau

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

Jacques Cousteau