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

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

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.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

In the beginning, there was movement.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.