Whaling Ship Quotes

#1. When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.

David Foreman

#2. Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

#3. Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Terence McKenna

#6. The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

Terry Pratchett

#7. God doesn't always bring you the entire truth. He sometimes gives it to you in pieces, in order to learn. Regardless, it is the piece that you got today that will renew your faith for tomorrow.

Shannon L. Alder