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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. "
Death
Car
Die
" 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. "
Three
Feet
Long
" Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival. "
Preparedness
Breeds
Survival
" I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. "
Man
Believe
Young Man
" I dive as much as I can. "
Much
I Can
Dive
" I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. "
Anything
Believe
Blaming
" I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. "
Thing
Think
Attack
" If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. "
Rain
Man
Treat
" 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. "
Mountain
Walk
Climb
" I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. "
Pessimist
Hopeful
Optimist
" I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. "
Care
Environment
Time
" I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet. "
Internet
Babe
Woods
" I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. "
Writer
Fiction
Me
" It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you. "
Turn
Care
Eat
" I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. "
Hurt
Sea
Been
" Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. "
Almost
Fall
Regularly
" Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. "
Sharks
Target
Hold
" Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. "
Sea
Lucky
Television
" There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway. "
Say
Animals
People
" Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. "
Knew
Sharks
White
" 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. "
Stories
Weave
Our
" 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. "
Sharks
Water
Time
" We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. "
Much
Afraid
Should
" Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. "
Food
Ocean
Sharks
" Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. "
Environmental
Life
Without
" Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. "
Writing
Discipline
Love
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