And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

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

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The sea is not a bargain basement.

In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

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