Ret Talbot > Ret's Quotes

“Style and beauty are not incompatible with scientific writing.”
― Stephen Heard

“I didn’t obscure anything, I just left it out.”
― Annie Dillard

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“Wild is a word like ‘soul’. Such a thing may not exist, but we want it, and we know what we mean when we talk about it.”
― Kathleen Jamie

“Now the white shark has returned to one of America’s most iconic summertime destinations, and it’s challenging our perception of what the ocean is to us. For the first time in a long time, we have a hazy sense of what it means not to be the top predator. For the first time in a long time, we’ve had to consider what it means to be prey, even if we’re only mistaken as such. What do we do with those emotions? Do we celebrate our
ecological success—the restoration of an apex predator to an ecosystem—or do we defend our hard-won territory?”
― Ret Talbot, Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark