Whales Quotes

• The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

  Gregory Colbert

  Song, Answers

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Ocean, Environmental

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ants, Fine

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• For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Ocean, Men

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• If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

  Prashant Iyengar

  Deep Water, Ponds, Ifs

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

  Christopher Moore

  Car, Police, Four

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• When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.

  David Foreman

  Rip, Heart, Fire

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• Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Sailing, World

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 43

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• Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Blessing, Shelter

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• Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Kids, Earth, Stuck

  "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

  Allen Ginsberg

  Men, Cells, Tree

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• A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  College, Yale, Ships

  Moby Dick ch. 24 (1851)

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• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

  Romare Bearden

  Swimming, Artist, Needs

  Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden (1990). “Romare Bearden, his life & art”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Encouragement, Real, Successful

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• It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

  Paul McCartney

  Ends, Slaughter, Magnificent

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• The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Ocean, Taken, Sea

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “The Eyes of the Amaryllis”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

  Daniel Handler

  Love You, Teeth, Flavor

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

  Riane Eisler

  Mother, Caring, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Water, Cups

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• The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

  Daniel Quinn

  Water Lily, Spiders, World

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.324, Bantam

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• And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
  A darkening shudder; water fell away;
  The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

  Yvor Winters

  Sea, Water, Rose

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.

  Christopher Moore

  Song, Art, Prayer

  "Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings". Book by Christopher Moore, June 3, 2003.

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• If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

  Dave Barry

  God, Swimming, Stupidity

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• A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

  Laozi

  Running, Water, Ants

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