80 Quotes by Sy Montgomery

I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Preserved pufferfish. Former flounders. Ex-eels.

Isn’t this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?

And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn’t have a chance to grow.

Soul is the fingerprint of God.

We kill 100 million [sharks] yearly. By 2050 we will have filled the sea with more plastics than fish.

Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.