Voyage of the Turtle

A Prelude in Carl Safina’s Book : Voyage of the Turtle  – In pursuit of the earth’s last Dinosaur

There exists a presence in the ocean, seldom glimpsed in walking hours, best envisioned in your dreams. While you drift in sleep, turtles ride the curve of the deep, seeking their inspiration from the sky. From tranquil tropic bays or nightmare maelstroms hissing foam, they come unseen to share our air. Each sharp exhalation affirms, “Life yet endures, “. Each inhaled gasps vows, “Life will continue,” With each breath they declare to the stars and wild silence. By the night and by the light. sea turtles glide always, their parallel universe strangely alien, yet intertwining with ours.

Riding the churning ocean’s turning tides and resisting no urge, they move, motivated neither by longing nor love nor reason, but tuned by a wisdom more ancient — so perhaps more trustworthy– than thought. Through jewel-hued sultry blue lagoons, through waters wild and green and cold, stroke these angles of the deep–ancient, ageless, great-grandparents of the world..

Turtle Quote: You are abs…

Turtle Quote: You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. – Paul Giamatti

Turtle Quote: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

‘He had no mysticism about turtles, although he had gone in turtle boats for many years. He was sorry for them all, even the great trunk backs that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton. Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too..’