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If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
— Peter Benchley
Tags: take, ground, food, you

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I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
— Peter Benchley
Tags: thing, attack, shark, think
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
— Peter Benchley
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Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
— Peter Benchley
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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
— Peter Benchley
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I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
— Peter Benchley
Tags: care, will, time, hope
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