Since the beginning each generation has... by Jacques Cousteau | We Heart Quotes

Since the beginning each generation has fought nature. Now, in the life-span of a single generation, we must turn around 180 degrees and become the protector of nature.

- Jacques Cousteau

Other quotes by Jacques Cousteau

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 Cousteau

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

- Jacques Cousteau

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

- Jacques Cousteau

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

- Jacques Cousteau

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

- Jacques Cousteau

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