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Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.
New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
So concisely, musically we are the herb So sit back and light me. Inhale... My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
Despite humans killing off whales as much as they could, give it time and they come back. If we give nature a chance, it will regenerate.
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.
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.