Jacques Cousteau Quotes
People protect what they love.
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves. Jacques Cousteau: The Ocean World. Harry N. Abrams, 1979.
His lesson was that in order to have a society that will protect animals, we must first enable citizens to know about the animals and then to love the animals.
He was talking about teh importance of getting people to learn about and know birds and other wildlife so then they would be enviornmentally conscious by wanting to take care of the wildlife. However, this quotation has much more generality, in that this characeristic of human nature seems to apply to immigrants, people of different religions and even of different polarized political subgroups. Contact with and knowing others tends to induce empathy, care, concern adn love.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie Française.
