Whales Quotes

I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I`m acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea.

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.

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I`m trying to attach my name to.

Oh, well. At least I won`t have to lose to Cher. (after failing to receive a best actress nomination for The Whales of August)

(Phenomena (1985)) was inspired by something I heard about insects being used to solve crimes, and because insects have always fascinated me I began to make a story around this idea. You know, it`s a terrible thing, but there are many insects that are disappearing. Becoming extinct. But most people only want to kill them. You know, insects have souls, too; they`re telepathic . . . amazing. People want to save the whales and dolphins, but nobody wants to save the insects. I`m a vegetarian, because I don`t want to kill things to eat.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

Both whales were pretty good at it. They caught a sea gull once every 20 days or so.

It was once believed that most animal behavior, from the food they ate to the places they slept, was based on instinct. This new discovery supports the growing view that animals like killer whales are very prone to learning by imitation, and that they are `cultural` in nature.

The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept,

Whales are humanity`s canary in the coal mine, ... As ocean pollution levels increase, marine mammals like whales will be among the first to go.

I have seen a lot of whale watching operations, quite a few of which were very irresponsible, but I was quite impressed with the local whale watching. They didn`t harass the whales, they didn`t approach the whales. They waited for the whales to come to them.

This isn`t a hunt that`s going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

He was a legendary character. He dwarfed the other guys (noted whales the Sultan of Brunei and Adnan Khashoggi , the arms dealer). Kerry played higher, and he played for 40 years.

(Keiko has had limited contact with other marine mammals, but none of the encounters were close enough to learn much about his ability to interact in the wild. A harbor seal wandered into the pen, but quickly exited after spotting Keiko.) We`ve had pilot whales and mink whales and harbor porpoises, and we do see a change in behavior, ... He becomes a lot more vocal. He`s a lot more active when these animals do show.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.