Quotes About Predators

Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.

I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

The thing about nature is that each species does what it's best at. That's why it's all so locked together. I'm certain that at its center is some kind of peace or unity or harmony - the white light people speak of having when they come back from "the dead." And what does our species do best? We construct artificial systems wherein we are mighty predators, or mighty thinkers, or sagacious, benevolent rulers of the universe - allies with God even.

Predators are color-blind. They only see victims and non-victims.

Predators only understand violence: either accept it or return the favor.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

In the evolution of species, protective armor has almost always spelled disaster. Although there are a few exceptions, the shell most often becomes a dead end for the animal encased in it; it slows the creature down, making it hard to forage for food and making it a target for fast-moving predators. Animals that take to the sea or sky, and that move swiftly and unpredictably, are infinitely more powerful and secure.

Maybe Tunesmith was mad. Louis asked, "Are you suggesting that ships that use hyperdrive near a star are eaten?" Tunesmith said, "Yes." Crazy. But . . . the Hindmost continued his work with the recordings and Needle's instruments. He hadn't flinched at the notion of predators eating spacecraft. The puppeteer already knew.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.

What are you afraid of?' I asked. 'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.

My dear man, every woman has felt herself surrounded by foxes at one time or another, if not by wolves.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.

Perhaps loneliness—it is that loneliest time of the night, the predawn darkness when the worst dreams come, the sunrise seems far off, and the creatures that inhabit both the real world and the darker edges of the unconscious prowl with the impunity of predators who know that their prey is helpless and alone.

These creatures are opportunistic cowards, afraid to take on something larger than them.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.