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Dr. Lilly reference lmaooo

'Dr. Lilly has tried, in vain, to teach English to dolphins. But dolphins only speak dolphinese.'

Obsessed with quote 😆

'Humpback whales...are endowed with a suppleness and a grace that are reminiscent simultaneously of a swallow and a Boeing 707.'

'I have often felt a sense of bitterness, or rather of impotence, when confronted with the thought that... these marvels of nature are beyond us, beyond our senses, beyond our experience....because they belong to a race of giants that requires of man an intellectual and emotional flexibility, an understanding, a willingness to break away from traditional concepts, that is perhaps beyond him.'

'The harpoon cannon not only destroyed myth, legend, poetry, and Moby Dick, the white whale; it also brought into question the very survival of the largest beings on the face of the earth.'

I need to read about whales now.