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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.

~Peter Benchley

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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.

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

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

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I dive as much as I can.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 8th, 1940

Died: February 11th, 2006

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