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Jacques-Yves Cousteau è stato un esploratore, navigatore, militare, oceanografo e regista francese. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Giugno 1910 – 25. Giugno 1997
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau frasi celebri

“Dopo l'istante magico in cui i miei occhi si sono aperti nel mare, non mi è stato più possibile vedere, pensare, vivere come prima.”

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Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 46, pag. 90

“La condizione per la conoscenza è la curiosità.”

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“Perché pensiamo all'oceano come a una semplice riserva di cibo, petrolio e minerali? Il mare non è un banco delle occasioni. Siamo accecati dalla cupidigia per le sue grandi ricchezze subacquee. La più grande risorsa dell'oceano non è materiale, ma è data dalla fonte illimitata d'ispirazione e di benessere che ne traiamo. Ma rischiamo di contaminarlo per sempre proprio quando stiamo imparando la sua scienza, la sua arte e la sua filosofia e come vivere nel suo grembo.”

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“La notizia si sparse per il Calypso dalla sala macchine al ponte, e tutti affollarono la mensa per vedere i reperti. Con gesto rituale Ichac alzò le coppe: «Sono state riunite insieme con i manici genelli ad angolo retto fra loro» disse separandole. «Io sto ora separando oggetti che uno specialista imballò in questo modo 2200 anni fa.»
L'osservazione fece colpo sulla compagnia. Le coppe erano state tornite e riunite da esseri viventi i cui abili risultati erano passati dalle loro mani alle nostre attraverso un arco di duemila anni. Noi non intendevamo immergerci semplicemente per andare a pescare dei pezzi da museo, ma per avere notizia di quegli artigiani, per sapere come la loro merce delicata potesse giungere fin nelle acque della Gallia, e sopratutto - per marinai come noi - per avere dati sulla nave e sull'abilità marinara della ciurma. Che specie di nave era quella? Come era stata costruita? Che sorta di uomini l'avevano manovrata? Degli indizi sarebbero potuti uscire dalla fanghiglia sotto di noi per raccontare ogni cosa.”

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The Living Sea

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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Christian Science Monitor (21 July 1971)

“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists”

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as quoted in The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=5JAUkrhPJQIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), Ch. 5. Bloomsbury Publishing.

“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.”

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Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”

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

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The Silent World by Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Frederic Dumas 2004 National Geographic Society, pg. 5

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

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“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know why this deleterious rumor has been systematically repeated, but its very existence is an ugly cancer upon the face of science.”

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Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)

“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”

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Christian Science Monitor (24 July 1986)

“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.”

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Interview (March 1996)

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

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Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)

“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”

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Time (28 March 1960)

“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”

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Interview (17 July 1971)

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

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Interview (17 July 1971): Cited in: Jane Goodall et al. (2005) Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.

“I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.”

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Interview (March 1996)

“The sea is the universal sewer.”

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Declaring the sea to be "where all kinds of pollution wind up", to the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics (28 January 1971)

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

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Time (28 March 1960)

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