The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), also known as the Pacific ridley, is a species of sea turtle.
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“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.
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“If the sea were ink
For the words of my Lord,
the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.”
—QurAn. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
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All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (19081963)