Il faut aller voir

"Il faut aller voir" -- "We must go and see for ourselves."

My friend Elizabeth sent me this wonderful story from the New York Times' unparalleled "Dot Earth" blog, which pays homage to the 100 year anniversary of Jacques-Yves Cousteau today. Charmingly Andrew Revkin shares memories of himself at age 13, when his hero Captain Cousteau first opened a whole new world for him.

As he notes: " As the human influence on the planet crests, we dearly need more communicators working, as he did, to remind us that we are deeply embedded in, and dependent on, a broader community of living things — many of which we barely understand and too often discount."