Narwhal Quotes

“At the top of the world, winters are long. But by mid-June, the twenty-four-hour darkness turns to twenty-four-hour sunlight. The sea current warms. The ice shifts. The leads widen. Time to migrate.”
― Candace Fleming, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic

“By November, you are back in your winter home. But you will return to the warmer shallows of the bay again and again, along familiar routes, back and forth. Winter to summer. Summer to winter. For the next fifty seasons. You are a narwhal - shy, swift, small (for a whale), the unicorn of the Arctic.”
― Candace Fleming, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic

“On this biting-cold December day, when winter ice covers the Arctic Ocean, six feet thick, and the sun does not shine, you poke your head through a patch of open water, your tusk pointed to the sky.”
― Candace Fleming, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic

“Scientists call you unicorn of the Arctic because of your tusk...a single twisting rod of ivory that sprouts from your upper left jaw. It began growing when you were a year-old calf. Now, nine years later, you are full grown, and so is your tusk. Thick as a lamppost, taller than a man, it is green with algae and alive with sea lice.”
― Candace Fleming, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic