Quotes About Whales

There are seven major theories. You want to hear about the underwater methane gas bubble theory?" I had this disturbing image of whales in an underwater locker room lighting farts. I said, "Maybe later.

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. (Would you like fries with that? Shut up and stop killing whales! Thank you. Drive through, please.)

Megaptera novaeangliae («Grandes alas de Nueva Inglaterra», la había denominado cierto científico, demostrando de este modo que los científicos también beben)

killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her daughter, both of them in pants embroidered with sea creatures - blue whales on his yellow pants, pink lobsters on her ill-fitting brick red pants - and matching pastel green cotton sweaters. When did Miranda buy such odd clothes? She imagined the two of them spotting eachother somewhere, kindred spirits, and starting up a conversation about their shared hobby of Extreme Wasp Attire.

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

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

If we killed cows the way we killed whales, people wouldn't stand for it," Steve said. "Imagine if you drove a truck with a torpedo gun off the back. When you saw a cow you fired at it, and then you either electrocuted it over the course of half an hour or the head of the torpedo blew up inside of it, rendering it unable to walk or move until it finally bled to death.

The perfume, all those dead whales in the cuts in her hands, it stings.

he made out a broad sandbank strewn with the skeletons of whales—a suggestion that he had come across a migration route

because the water was deep and blue and chilly. The men of the fleet might have seen whales because this was the principal breeding site

The adults weigh a thousand pounds, and if butchered properly, their rich meat and blubber

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears to the bottom of the boat so we could listen to their songs. We turned to my grandfather and asked, "What do their song mean?" "The whales do not sing because they have an answer," he said. "They sing because they have a song.

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.

There is one variant of bubble feeding where the case is stronger for its being culturally based, and this is because, as with the songs of humpback, bowhead, and blue whales, there has been a change in the population's behavior over timescales of less than a generation. The behavior is called lobtail feeding, which is a variant on the bubble-cloud feeding that we described a little earlier. The

Human cultural supremacy over the surface of the earth is recent and not quite complete. If we could have listened at lower frequencies, below the limits of the human ear, we would have heard rumbles and groans of other whales—the finback and the blue—their songs competing in the lowest frequency bands with the recent sound of ships. Could these be other nonhuman cultures?

The first time I ever recorded the songs of the humpback whales at night was off Bermuda. It was also the first time I had ever heard the abyss. Normally you don't hear the size of the ocean when you are listening, but I heard it that night . . . That's what whales do; they give the ocean its voice, and the voice they give is ethereal and unearthly."44

People listened to whale songs, and politicians listened to the whale-song listening people and, then, finally, acted on the warnings of the population biologist Cassandras. The

Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. —OSCAR WILDE

En los hombres superficiales, el pecesillo de los pensamientos povoca mucho ruido; en las mentes oceànicas, las ballenas de la inspiraiòn apenas si dejan estela Escrituras hindùes.