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

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

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

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.

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.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

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

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

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

People protect what they love.

You can't be me and I can't be you, so I guess that means we'll have to be ourselves.

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Nothing is forever except change.

I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes." - Adria

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.