Fishes Quotes - Page 29

• Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cutting, Tree, Over You

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance to our ecosystem, which also includes our atmosphere. Have you ever considered that we, you and I, are also apart of that?

  Bryan Kest

  Animal, Ecosystems, Perfect

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• We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

  Winona LaDuke

  Lakes, Aquifers, Land

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• I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

  Stephen Curry

  Weekend, Thinking, Years

  Source: wearegolf.org

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• In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.

  Enric Sala

  Animal, Sharks, Whales

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• I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Writing, Fishing

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• Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Opiates, Able

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• If you were a fish, and you were to touch a doorknob, you would be able to feel the presence of every person who had touched that doorknob during the course of a day.

  Sharon Gannon

  Would Be, Able, Feels

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump into one another? That's because they have a highly developed sense of feeling in their bodies, which enables them to feel not only the movement of the water against their skin but the presence of other beings who are close. They certainly are not cold-blooded in the sense that they are dull, insensitive, and have no feelings.

  Sharon Gannon

  School, Water, Feelings

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools.

  Sharon Gannon

  Memories, Long, Tools

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cousin, Floating, Damage

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.

  Sharon Gannon

  Fishing, Land, Meals

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Weight, Cows

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• It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef!

  Sharon Gannon

  Beef, May, Sixteen

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Michael Phelps is a beast. He's like a human fish. It's really impressive.

  Nina Agdal

  Beast, Impressive, Humans

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Russia, Oil

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Rotten, Shooting, Miami

  Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Death, Retirement

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

  Kathy Freston

  Home, Tuna Fish, Six Months

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• Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

  Christopher Camuto

  Spiritual, Dark, Rivers

  Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• "Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of Katie Jarvis, who plays the main character, Mia. She is not a professional actress and she provides the film with a sense of realism. To me, the film feels so complete and superior.

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

  Character, Play, Tanks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beautiful, London, Thames

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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