Ashes-and-snow Quote by Gregory Colbert

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it…

— Chris Crutcher

“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.”

— Terri Irwin

“Whales can hear one another from hundreds of kilometres away, and each whale has a repertoire of characteristic ‘songs’ that may last for hours…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“The earth rests on three whales: On the deeds of heroes. On the prayers of believers. On the toasts of drunkards.”

— Anonymous

“Press your ear to my chest and listen where a heartbeat should sing you will hear the melancholy songs of tired whales.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough to prompt its entire pod to…

— Marina Keegan

“The life of a whale is short on land.”

— Nicolas Massimi

Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play…

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

“By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits…

— Herman Melville

“But think of the hearts of these whales, beating warm against the sea, day and night, through dark and light, on and on for…

— John Muir

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman