Creatures Quote by David Quammen

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

— Bennett Madison

“In the same way, gasping for air underwater, is like giving love to someone that doesn’t want it; you’ll drown inevitably. All you can…

— Mischa Street

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

— Ovid

“Said the Hoopoe: 'O ignorant of the sea, don't you know that it is full of crocodiles and other dangerous creatures? Sometimes its water…

— Farid ud-Din Attar

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

— Michael Ondaatje

“To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.”

— R.A. Nelson

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we…

— Mark Nepo

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under…

— George MacDonald

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

— Edwidge Danticat

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

— James Cameron

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

— Arsene Wenger

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

— F. Scott Fitzgerald