Peter Benchley Quotes

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Living is risking.

Truth is often attended with danger

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Risk is part of our jobs.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

What is life, but one long risk?

Life has to be dangerous.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

He that's secure is not safe.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.