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Peter Benchley Quotes

American - Author | May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006

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 live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

Live Walk Mountain River Climb

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

Respect Rain Man Treat Learn Forest

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Life Environmental Earth Without

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 do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

Car Death Animal Bee Snake Die

I dive as much as I can.

I Can Dive Much

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

Food Ocean You Sharks Without Take

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Great Food Anger Consequences Sharks

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.

Time Water Ocean Sharks Forget Our

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

Sharks Afraid Half Us Much Should

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

People Doing Look Back Go Say

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Survival Preparedness Breeds

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Me Think Single Fiction Influences

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