There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
If I pull in a fish I have no intention of eating, I release him immediately or give it away. If he's… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“...you never truly win a conservation battle - you just win the right to fight another day. Like an alcoholic, the environment… — Joshua Horwitz Copy Share Image
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image