Whales Quotes - Page 8

• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Eggs

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.

  Nicholas Lore

  Blue, Perfect, Elements

  Whole Living Magazine, 2004.

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• Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

  Tucker Max

  Men, Dolphins, Hey

  "The Midget Story". The Tucker Max Stories, tuckermax.com.

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• Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

  Winnie Ewing

  Voice, Scotland, Choices

  Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

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• The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Care, Saving

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• Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Ocean, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

  Sylvia Earle

  Turtles, Sharks, Years

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• Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

  John Adams

  Passion, Morality, Constitution

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• Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

  Thomas Szasz

  Errors, Feelings, Disease

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• This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

  Richard Brautigan

  Country, Morning, Ocean

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Cowboy, Thinking

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• We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

  Michael Jackson

  Long Ago, Missing, Looks

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• Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Stars, Dark

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• Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Thinking, Data

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

  Chris Carter

  Ocean, Japan, Numbers

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• Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Men, Rising

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• What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

  John Vaillant

  Answers, Lions, Language

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• You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, People, One Day At A Time

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• To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Biblical, Needs

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• . . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

  Jack London

  Life, Justice, Broken

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• We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.

  Matthew Scully

  Attitude, Our World, Offering

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.346, Macmillan

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• Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

  Martin Scorsese

  Fog, Wife, Sound

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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