Gorgo - Discovery of an Infant Creature
Professor Flaherty:
Captain Ryan. The creature that you have captured is not an adult specimen.
Sam Slade:
You mean it isn't fully grown?
Professor Flaherty:
No. In fact, we believe it is in rather early infancy.
Sam Slade:
You're trying to say there may be a fully grown one of these things around somewhere?
Professor Hendricks:
It's a fair assumption. Where there are offspring, there are generally parents.
Joe Ryan:
How big would a full-grown one be?
Professor Flaherty: [He shows them two scale drawings of the creatures]
An approximate guess? The infant. The adult.
Joe Ryan:
That would make it nearly two hundred feet tall!
Professor Flaherty:
At the very least.
Professor Hendricks:
Obviously, the proper authorities must be notified at once.
Joe Ryan:
What are you trying to do? Stir up a whole hornet's nest because of a few calculations made on a piece of paper? Nuts to that!
Professor Flaherty:
I'm afraid, Captain Ryan, the decision is no longer in your hands.
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Gorgo - Debating the Value of Capturing Gorgo
Sam Slade:
We might be able to catch it in the nets. But how do you propose to kill a thing like that?
Joe Ryan:
Oh, I don't know. Dynamite, maybe?
Sam Slade:
Ever stop to think what a thing like that might be worth alive?
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Born Free - The Dilemma of Taming Wild Animals
Joy Adamson:
Elsa, Elsa
George Adamson:
Let's try this.
Joy Adamson:
all my nightmares had come true.
George Adamson:
...she can't make it. she can't think. she can't mix with her own kind... She can't do anything the wild animals do to survive. You've done too good a job on her. You've made her tame. It's too late to try to let her go wild now. All we're doing is making her miserable, torturing her. How could you be so cruel?
Joy Adamson:
You keep quiet George.
George Adamson:
I don't know what goes on in that head of yours anymore... What's wrong with a zoo, anyway?
Joy Adamson:
nothing. Except that she won't be free.
George Adamson:
and Is freedom so important?
Joy Adamson:
yes, yes, she was born free and she has the right to live free. Why don't we live in a more comfortable setting George? Other people do. We chose to live out here cause it represents freedom for us. Because we can breathe.
George Adamson:
Joy, tell me the truth. You just don't want to give her up. What you're really hoping is that she can stay out here, wild, but not too wild. That you can see her every now and then.
Joy Adamson:
it's not the whole truth. But I don't deny I'd like it.
George Adamson:
it's impossible. It cannot happen.
Joy Adamson:
...at least she would be free. At least she wouldn't be in a cage for the rest of her life.
George Adamson:
even if she gets herself killed in the process.
Joy Adamson: [stroking Elsa's leg; narrates]
I'd never forgive myself I suppose. although at one time we were afraid she'd die, Elsa did recover. And when she did, she seemed somehow different.
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Ring of Bright Water - Self-Reflection and Regret
Graham Merrill: [trapped on roof of his cottage after Mij knocks ladder over]
What an idiot I am!
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Ring of Bright Water - Traveling with an Otter Is Challenging
Graham Merrill:
It's not the easiest thing in the world to travel by train with an otter.
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Ring of Bright Water - Gentle Encouragement to Mij
Graham Merrill: [on a train]
Come, steady now, Mij.
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Ring of Bright Water - Questioning the Pursuit of a Conventional Life
Graham Merrill:
Escape the rat race?
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