If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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.

- Pierce Brosnan

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

- Pierce Brosnan

The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

- Paul Watson

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

- Paul Watson

To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.

- Paul Watson

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

- Paul Watson

My clients are the whales and the seals.

- Paul Watson

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

- Paul Watson

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

- Paul McCartney

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

- Mayim Bialik

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

- Lewis Thomas

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

- Kenneth R. Miller

Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

- Jonathan Franklin

There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.

- Jim Murphy

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.

- Iggy Pop

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

- George Gaylord Simpson

How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

- Denis Leary

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

- Dave Barry