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Alexandra Cousteau Quotes

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Alexandra Cousteau
Writing, Water, Ink
"Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.

Alexandra Cousteau
Believe, Water, Storm

Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

Alexandra Cousteau
Sea, Ecosystems, Safety
"2014 New Year’s Resolution" by Alexandra Cousteau, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2013.

Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.

Alexandra Cousteau
Blessing, Whales, Water
Source: www.glamour.com

I think the most important thing people can do is to learn about their watershed. And it's something no one knows.

Alexandra Cousteau
Thinking, People, Important
"Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence.

Alexandra Cousteau
Children, Sick, Water
"Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

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