Dolphins And Humans Quotes

“They were good people. Not dolphin-good, but human-good, which was almost good enough. They couldn’t fulfill the instinctive needs she had burning in her brain, the ones that told her to find a mate who wasn’t her brother or her uncle, to swim, to leap, to know. So she was here, with the deep black sea between her and her freedom.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“I feel at ease and, in an indefinable way, at home, when dolphins are around. I now know when they are nearby before they appear. I dream after they leave.”
― Virginia Coyle

“All three dolphins were magnificent, absolute marvels of the ocean, and by all rights they should have been out in the Pacific, doing what 55 million years of evolution had designed them to do in the most important ecosystem on earth, instead of in here, leaping to the beat of cheesy pop songs.

As I watched, sweat trickled down the back of my neck but something else was rising: anger. The show was soul-crushingly stupid. It was plainly and inanely stupid- all of this was stupid, everything that went on at the cove, the entire arrogant, selfish relationship we had with these animals and with all of nature, as though every bit of life existed only for our purposes. We behaved as though we were gods, deciding the fate of everything, but we weren't. We were just dumb. I felt a wave of despair wash over me.”
― Susan Casey

“On balance, then, it looks as though the dolphin has more brain left over for higher mental processes than we do.”
― Karl Erik Fitchtelius and Sverre Sjolander

“When it comes to marine life, our existence depends upon their existence.”
― June Stoyer