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“Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a sweetness as…

— Herman Melville

“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.”

— William Goldman

“There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy…

— Herman Melville

“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have…

— Herman Melville

“oohing and aahing over the Old Whaling Church and”

— Elin Hilderbrand

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

— Dave Barry

“It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the…

— Herman Melville

“Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one…

— Steve Merrick

“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

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

— Steve Irwin

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a small fishing…

— Carol Drinkwater