Quotes About Gills

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.

Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed." "Potted and splificated?" "Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.

Seawater is about 0.5–0.9 percent oxygen at the surface. Most marine animals use gills to get this oxygen into their bodies. A

The weird go west," I tell my dog. Anyone too strange for Berkeley must walk straight into the sea like a lemming to drown. Or possibly grow gills. If they are too odd for this city, there can be no place for them above sea level.

Somehow, in the broad, shadowless light of the moon, the water looked amiable and welcoming. I thought drowning must be the kindest way to die, and burning the worst. Some of those babies in the jars that Buddy Willard showed me had gills, he said. They went through a stage where they were just like fish.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

I came in friendship, but how do you convey intention to a harbor seal? I thought later that I should have left offerings on the island—silvery fish heads, glistening blue necklaces of entrails and bracelets of feathery gills. But I never thought of it then.

Had humans never settled in Los Angeles, evolution, left to its own devices, might have created in a million more years the ideal creature for the habitat: a camel with gills.

Mushrooms use a catapult powered by the acceleration of a tiny droplet of fluid over the spore surface to launch spores from their gills; a relative of mushrooms called the artillery fungus employs a snap-buckling device that resembles a miniature toilet plunger to propel a spore-filled capsule into the air, and cup fungi and other ascomycetes use microscopic squirt guns to blast their spores skyward. Most