Animal Public Quotes by Peter Benchley

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have…

— Peter Benchley

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

— Peter Benchley

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been…

— Peter Benchley

“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.”

— Peter Benchley

“Come up fish. Come to Quint.”

— Peter Benchley

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the…

— Peter Benchley

“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”

— Peter Benchley

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

— Peter Benchley

Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful…

— Peter Benchley

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it…

— Peter Benchley

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back…

— Peter Benchley

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity…

— Peter Benchley