Editing Jacques Cousteau (section)

=== Religious views ===
Archbishop [[Jean-Marie Lustiger]] celebrated his funeral Mass at Notre-Dame in Paris. In his homily he stated, "Without betraying any confidences, Father Carré told me of his respect for Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He discovered in him a man of prayer whom he accompanied in his last months of his life, giving him, through the sacraments of the Church, the strength of his passage towards eternity."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/homelie-prononcee-lors-des-obseques-de-m-jacques-yves-cousteau-en-la-cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris | title=Homélie prononcée lors des obsèques de M. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, en la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris &#124; Académie française | access-date=11 August 2023 | archive-date=11 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811164444/https://www.academie-francaise.fr/homelie-prononcee-lors-des-obseques-de-m-jacques-yves-cousteau-en-la-cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris | url-status=live }}</ref>

In a chapter entitled "The Holy Scriptures and the Environment" in the posthumous work ''The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus'', he is quoted as stating that "The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists".<ref>Cousteau, Jacques; ed. by Schiefelbein, Susan. 2010. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5JAUkrhPJQIC The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World]''. Bloomsbury Publishing. {{ISBN|9781596917552}}</ref>