Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

The barbarous and inconsiderate greed of these fishermen will one day cause the disappearance of the last whale in the ocean.

Besides, according to the calculations of some naturalists, one of these animals only six feet long would have tentacles twenty-seven feet long. That would suffice to make a formidable monster.”