Author: Peter Benchley

Quotes

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.

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.

- Peter Benchley

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

- Peter Benchley

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

- Peter Benchley

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

- Peter Benchley

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

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

- Peter Benchley

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

- Peter Benchley

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