May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind..

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

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..

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free..

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever..

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world..

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets..

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry….

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of….

There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating throug….

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

How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or ….

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing..

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.

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

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

Sometimes 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.

To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if ma….

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

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish..

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take ….