Susan Casey QUOTES

1 " [The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves. "

― Susan Casey , The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

2 " All three dolphins were magnificent, absolute marvels of the ocean, and by all rights they should have been out in the Pacific, doing what 55 million years of evolution had designed them to do in the most important ecosystem on earth, instead of in here, leaping to the beat of cheesy pop songs.

As I watched, sweat trickled down the back of my neck but something else was rising: anger. The show was soul-crushingly stupid. It was plainly and inanely stupid- all of this was stupid, everything that went on at the cove, the entire arrogant, selfish relationship we had with these animals and with all of nature, as though every bit of life existed only for our purposes. We behaved as though we were gods, deciding the fate of everything, but we weren't. We were just dumb. I felt a wave of despair wash over me. "

― Susan Casey

3 " Maybe it is selfish of me to want the sea for myself, to want the waves rushing only for me, to want every word strung into jagged loops of poetry to flow from my only tongue, but the world has emptied me out ; what is more filling than the sea who continues to drown itself "

― Susan Casey , Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean

4 " No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off hunger. Or, as Brown had written in the journal, 'maybe they're just weird. "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

5 " While chasing birds, he had hitchhiked through some of the most desolate places imaginable. Nicaraguan jungles, Indian slums, Samoa fruit bat colonies. But when asked to name the least likable place he'd seen in the world, he instantly pointed to an affluent California suburb: Walnut Creek, no question. "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

6 " How do you think humans got so cruel?” I asked Makili. He gazed at the ocean, then back at Turner and me. “We forgot,” he said, letting the words linger. “We forgot our responsibility. And we forgot that we are as equal as any living thing within the chain. There’s no hierarchy in this. Nah. We are part of the same family: living things. All the rest of it is just totally fucking bullshit. "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

7 " The devices meant to float at sea and capture the waves' power have been destroyed in short order by . . . the waves. "they've all been smashed up in storms," Challenor said, shaking his head. "

― Susan Casey , The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

8 " at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia, where wild bottlenoses are regularly fed fish by people standing in the shallows, biologists have documented—on twenty-three occasions—the dolphins reciprocating, swimming up to offer freshly caught tuna, eels, and octopi as gifts. "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

9 " UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farallones between 1946 and 1970. "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

10 " Australian pro surfer Dave Rastovich, straddling his board waiting for a wave, was astonished to watch a dolphin hurtle itself at a shark that was torpedoing toward him, sending it fleeing. (Coincidentally, only two days earlier Rastovich had launched a nonprofit group, Surfers for Cetaceans, to protect dolphins and whales.) "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

11 " The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren’t looking "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

12 " (A few years ago in Fushun, China, two dolphins ate strips of their tank’s vinyl lining and were saved by Bao Xishun, a 7′9″ Mongolian herdsman who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The World’s Tallest Man.” When surgical tools failed, Xishun reached down the dolphins’ throats with his forty-two-inch arms and extracted the plastic.) "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

13 " One little known fact: The water that spouts out of a whale’s blowhole in such a picturesque way reeks like the most toxic fart imaginable. "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

14 " He even experimented on himself, hammering a sleeve into his own skull. Once this was accomplished, it was then possible to insert electrodes and inject chemicals “through small needles anywhere in the brain. "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

15 " In Taiji, the town was malefic and the people could be horrid, but the cove’s most demanding challenges were personal ones: How do you survive your own sadness? "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

16 " In any group of dolphins you’ll find cliques and posses, duos and trios and quartets, mothers and babies and spinster aunts, frisky bands of horny teenage males, wily hunters, burly bouncers, sage elders—and their associations are anything but random. Dolphins are strategists. They’re also highly social chatterboxes who recognize themselves in the mirror, count, cheer, giggle, feel despondent, stroke each other, adorn themselves, use tools, make jokes, play politics, enjoy music, bring presents on a date, introduce themselves, rescue one another from dangerous situations, deduce, infer, manipulate, improvise, form alliances, throw tantrums, gossip, scheme, empathize, seduce, grieve, comfort, anticipate, fear, and love—just like us. "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

17 " retrieving "

― Susan Casey , The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

18 " two photographers who accompanied him, Sonny Miller and Jeff Hornbaker. "

― Susan Casey , The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

19 " more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline. "

― Susan Casey , The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

20 " SLAPP lawsuit (strategic lawsuit against public participation), charges intended to squelch free speech. The goal of a SLAPP is not to win in court, but rather to exhaust the defendants in every possible way (especially financially) by filing endless motions, charges, deferrals, requests for documents, subpoenas for depositions—a blizzard of legal paperwork. "

― Susan Casey , Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

1
2