and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom… — Alister Hardy Copy Share Image
He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Leo scratched his head. “Well I dunno about Enchiladas-“ “Enceladus,” Piper corrected. “Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
