Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

The great fish moved silently through the night water.