Eugenie Clark Quotes

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Maritime nations still respond automatically to the shibboleth of the "freedom of the seas." Professing to believe in the "inexhaustible resources of the oceans," they bring species after species of fish and whales closer to extinction.

Life eats life to live.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

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

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

Big fish eat little fish.

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.

I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.