Peter Benchley Ocean Quotations

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

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

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

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.