Sea Turtle Quotes:

The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

- Sandy Archibald

topic: Beach, Ocean, Blood, Sea Turtle

I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.

- Archie Carr

source: Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”

topic: Writing, Marine, Turtles, Stanley, Sea Turtle

Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.

- Archie Carr

topic: Determination, Marine, Turtles, Sea Turtle

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures.

- Mary Alice

topic: Believe, Pride, Greatness, Sea Turtle

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

- John Grant

topic: Ocean, Animal, Turtles, Veterinarian, Myrtle

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

- Christopher Moore

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

topic: Turtles, Sharks, Sea, Piggy, Sea Turtle

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Beach, Turtles, Sea, Rainforest, Cobblestone

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Turtles, Sea, Civilization, Sea Turtle