I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For…

— Pierce Brosnan

“Whale oil beef hooked,”

— Louise Penny

“It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays—but they can't write them down.”

— Bronwen Wallace

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

— Dan Simmons

“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner,…

— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length…

— Will Cuppy

“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the…

— Roberto Bolaño

I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.

— Andre Nickatina

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and…

— Paul Watson

“Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.”

— Herman Melville

“That summer, there was a Name the Babies contest, an annual event organized by the Whale Museum on San Juan Island. A young girl…

— Michael Parfit

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiments,…

— Hal Whitehead

“What up you guys, I'm back!”

— Jackson Lanzing

Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or…

— Roger Tory Peterson