Alligators Quotes

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

(Keith Powell and Chris Eger, Pascagoula animal control officers, waded toward their father-in-law`s home, dragging a canoe with two shotguns (for killing snakes and possibly alligators) and a cold, wet dog.) He was perched in a tree, halfway in the water, ... He was struggling to hold on when we found him.

(There are no fish swimming in Lakeview, and no bayou alligators, he said. The water bubbles with natural gas from broken mains and carries the detritus of a neighborhood to and fro. One neighbor refused to evacuate, and Hunter hasn`t seen him. Still, he added, he hasn`t found any corpses. At the Basin bar,) we`d sit there and solve all the world`s problems, but with this, I just don`t know where to begin, ... I don`t know if this city will ever come back.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn`t have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.