Jacques-Yves Cousteau [žak ív kustó] byl francouzský námořní důstojník, oceánograf a vynálezce, ochránce přírody, fotograf a filmař zabývající se výzkumem, ochranou a popularizací života moří a oceánů. Wikipedia
„Nejlepší způsob, jak pozorovat ryby, je stát se sám rybou.“
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“The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists”
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.
Interview (17 July 1971); Cited in: Elizabeth Brubaker et al. (2008) Breath of Fresh Air, p. 180
The Silent World by Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Frederic Dumas 2004 National Geographic Society, pg. 5
Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
Christian Science Monitor (24 July 1986)
Interview (March 1996)
“Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”
Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”
Interview (17 July 1971): Cited in: Jane Goodall et al. (2005) Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.
“The sea is the universal sewer.”
Declaring the sea to be "where all kinds of pollution wind up", to the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics (28 January 1971)
