Green Life Motivational Lessons from Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Oceanographer
Born: 11 June 1910 / Died: 25 June 1997
Birthplace: Saint-André de Cubzac, France
Best known as: Underwater explorer and filmmaker
Jacques Cousteau was the most famous undersea explorer in the world, known by his dozens of books and films from the 1950s until his death in 1997. The co-inventor of the aqualung (an underwater breathing apparatus) in 1943, Cousteau also pioneered techniques in underwater photography and explored the oceans of the world aboard his vessel Calypso. His filmmaking career included three Oscars, frequent television specials and the series, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966). In his later years Cousteau devoted himself to educating the public on environmental issues, and working with the Cousteau Foundation, founded in 1973 to further marine research and exploration. He was commonly known as Jacques Cousteau or Captain Cousteau.
I present you here some wellknown quotes from a great man that loved both life and Nature (because Nature means Life) and who was JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU.
The quotes do not need to be explain , because they explain unique life lessons.
About Life:
- “Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on
pushing.”
- “If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”
- “It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalization’
- “The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.”
- “Man is a very adaptable species, especially when a new experience contains so much that is novel, beautiful and exciting.”
- “Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”
About Green Life:
- “People protect what they love.”
- “A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.”
- “The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.”
- “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
- “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
- “What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
- “If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”
- “Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
- “The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.”
- “The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.”
Read more about Jacques-Yves Cousteau on http://en.wikipedia.org
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