Peter Benchley - Without sharks, you take away the apex...

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

Biography

Author Profession: Author

Nationality: American

Born: May 8, 1940

Died: February 11, 2006

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Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Zig Ziglar, Frederick Douglass, Joyce Meyer, Leo Buscaglia, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics

Away, Chain, Destroy, Entire, Food, Food Chain, Ocean, Predator, Sharks, Take, Without, You

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

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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.

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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.

Fear Just About Chat

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

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Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Survival Preparedness Breeds

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Fall Rise Almost Tides

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.

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I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.

Think Attack Shark Thing

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

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I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Sea Hurt Never Been

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

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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

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I dive as much as I can.

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I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

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