It actually is a Japanese beetle.

Goddamn.

A hare raced with a tortoise.

I know. You're in Europe to buy a husband.

You are husbandhunting after all. That wasn't jealousy you heard.

Maybe you'll meet one too, Josephine.

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

If I were Francie's age, you'd sound too good to be true.

The best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together.

You touch a snapping turtle with a stick and he grabs at it with his teeth.

Someone's probably taking him for plenty.

The one on the left is the Namibian beetle pulling water out of fog.

In actuality you are water. Water?

Life is all in the breathing.

A tortoise?

Cuckolds!

Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales are way down in numbers.

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?

Now I can be a good guy or I can be one real mean son of a bitch.

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.

But here was this kid who loved Transformers and Snoopy and the Ninja Turtles, and the characters that I read about, I fell in love with, and they became my friends.

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Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.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

Sea turtles have a long lifespan.

Turtles are reptiles.

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.

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