Peter Benchley Quotes

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• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
• There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything.…
• Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its…
• 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 as…
• The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as…
• The great fish moved silently through the night water.
• We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
• Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
• We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
• If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a…
• Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a…
• A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We…
• If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles…

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