Family Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and…

— Natalie Angier

“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance,…

— Eric Jay Dolin

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

— Terri Irwin

“Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe…

— Herman Melville

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

“Not long ago, a whale biologist named Phillip Clapham sent me a photograph that illustrates the consequences of life without a doorman. Like most…

— Mary Roach

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from…

— Jonathan Swift

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When…

— Gavin O'Connor

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

— Bill Condon

“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

“go on a whaling voyage; this”

— Herman Melville

We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes…

— Riane Eisler