Gilbert White Quotes

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

I like underwater life.

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

The world is like an ocean and in the ocean is a pearl, and the pearl is Herat.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.

Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

Fish cannot carry guns.

Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.