And up will come mangroves, and sea turtles and your own kidneys.

I've lived my whole life in this house and never had a corner where I could put a turtle.

In actuality you are water. Water?

Life is all in the breathing.

A tortoise?

Cuckolds!

Goddamn.

Cuckolds!

Rosaki?

And when you realize that the casque of the turtle looks like an urban tessitura, and can we imagine, if we cut the casque of the turtle, how sad she's going to be?

And when you look at these 70 year old turtles, you can't tell the difference, just by looking, between those turtles and 20 year old turtles.

Please buy me a turtle, Mother, please buy me a turtle.

Buy me a turtle, Mom, please buy me a turtle!

Take a walk with a turtle.

Actually, humans are one of the constituents in the immensity of Nature.

Form the turtle!

Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.

So do sea turtles.

It is the link between the two.

Back to the sticks?

Failure to reverse marine turtle decline would imply a replacement cost for nesting females through captive breeding estimated at U.S. 245.9 million 263.3 million for green turtles and 2.5 billion for leatherback turtles.

Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.

But I've also, over the last year or so, got in touch with my inner tortoise.

A hare raced with a tortoise.

Sea turtles have a long lifespan.

Turtles are reptiles.

The red dot is the laser light of the submarine Alvin to give us an idea about how far away we are from the vents.

The near total extinction from 1994 to 2002 created a collapse in sea turtle tourism and revenues.

He sent them ashore for turtles.

We did this with the Great Turtle Race tagged turtles, brought in four million hits.

Developing countries account for a striking 78 91 percent of the countries where five of the seven species of sea turtles live, and 61 percent of these countries are home to two or more turtle species.

One delegation noted that not all species of turtles were in danger of extinction, and that some species were in fact increasing.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

The Indian Tortoise and the Chinese Hare

Betting on the Tortoise in Japan

Saving Sea Turtles, Making Money

Are we to be the last?

Get back in there, you mock turtle.

The tortoise prevails 10,000 years

You want a turtle?

Now, these fellows aren't looking for turtles.

Ventriloquism. That's what it is ventriloquism.

For instance, take these sea turtles.

For example, there are some tortoises called Blanding's turtles.

This was Bert the Turtle.