“Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.” — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why?… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath… — Lewis Gordon Pugh Copy Share Image
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling,… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“The next day, William Lanney's much abused remains were carried in a coffin to the cemetery. The crowd of mourners was large.… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing… — Hal Whitehead 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
The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be… — Ommanney F. D Copy Share Image
I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
![“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing species and in these degenerate times, when ships burn oil, the firemen is rapidly becoming a perfect gentleman, which is a pity …. Yet all was not quite lost…” quote by Ommanney F. D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/538/f-d-ommanney-165851_1932_but-alas-firemen-stoking-a-ship-are-not_2184474.jpg)
