Peter Benchley Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Peter Benchley quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased author born on May 31, 1940). These are the last 5 out of 35 quotes we have for him.

“It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.”

“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.”

“Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.”

“I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.”

“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.”