Quotes About Plankton

#1. If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

Daniel Pauly

#2. Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

Richard Preston

#3. Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.

Sylvia Earle

#4. Among the tiny atomic structures the plankton take to the grave with them are two very stable isotopes - oxygen-16 and oxygen-18.

Bill Bryson

#5. Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

Geoffrey Miller

#6. What is this?"
"Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates."
Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.

Deb Caletti

#7. As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Annie Dillard

#8. Here is a fish swimming around comfortably and (he thinks) unobtrusively, flicking here and there amongst the kelp and the plankton. Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl.

Stephen King

#9. Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Tom Holt

#10. That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Gene Hackman

#11. There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

David Suzuki

#12. Standing within a peat bog in Dingle, you can't help wondering what Ireland was like before you and the other primates scrambled up upon its shores. When viewed from space, did it glow like a furry emerald within a sea of blue, the terrestrial equivalent of a massive marine plankton bloom? We

Hope Jahren

#13. I often got, floating on the ocean at night, that we were nothing but a minuscule piece of flotsam or perhaps plankton drifting through space itself. I say it was an impression, but of course it's true.

James Adair

#14. There is a seaward bulge of stratocumulus. Sun glint and littoral drift. I see blooms of plankton in a blue of such Persian richness it seems an animal rapture, a colour change to express some form of intuitive delight.

Don DeLillo

#15. Without the plankton the sea would be a barren wilderness

Richard R. Kirby

#16. how can plankton make a shark embarrassed of itself? The correct answer is: it can't.

Krista Ritchie

#17. How many children had this happened to? How many children were like me, floating like plankton in the wide ocean?

Janet Fitch

#18. We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Martin J. Rees

#19. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe.
-Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#20. Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doing
my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into
if I were ever on the verge of death
plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

Rick Riordan

#21. We'll do the sensual shit another time,

C.D. Reiss

#22. I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey

#23. A woman loves purposeful commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

T.C. Boyle

#25. The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.

Terry Pratchett

#26. The morning light played up his hazel eyes and for a moment I was caught in his allure. The dark brows, the dark hair, the tan skin. A weaker woman would have thrown herself at him a long time ago.

R.S. Grey

#27. Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she's high maintenance. Don't confuse the two.

Steve Maraboli

#28. I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt

Dave Sim

#29. I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

Tommy Lee Jones