鈥淭here isn鈥檛 a part of the whale that we Japanese don鈥檛 eat. We even make soup out of the blood.鈥�
Yuriko Shiraishi of the Women鈥檚 Forum for Fish, during a whale-meat cooking class in Tokyo (Japan Times, 6 June)
鈥淵ou put your head under the water and you could just hear them squealing. It was the best feeling ever.鈥�
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15-year-old Rachael Cooke on the moment when 80 beached false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) were shepherded out to sea by 1500 volunteers in Busselton, Western Australia (Herald Sun, Melbourne, 3 June)
鈥淟ive animals are not the sort of business we want to chase. We鈥檙e not here to do business because somebody else thinks we ought to.鈥�
British Airways chairman Martin Broughton explaining the company鈥檚 decision not to carry animals destined for use in scientific research. BA has come under pressure from animal rights activists (The Guardian, London, 6 June)
鈥淭he debate is over. We know the science. We see the threat, and we know the time for action is now.鈥�
Arnold Schwarzenegger announces his plan to reduce California鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions to below 2000 levels in less than five years to delegates gathered for UN World Environment Day in San Francisco (The New York Times, 2 June)
鈥淗e asked me to try to get the hair back. I called the person I sold it to. He was not interested in giving it back.鈥�
Astronaut Neil Armstrong鈥檚 barber Mark Sizemore on how he tried to retrieve a lock of Armstrong鈥檚 hair that he had sold without permission for $3000. Armstrong is threatening legal action if the hair is not returned or the money donated to charity (Newsday, 1 June)