Quotes About Wildlife

the people understand that protecting the forest is not just for wildlife but for their own future, and so they have become our partners in conservation

Antras b?das yra sl?ptis transporto priemon?se. Taip daroma stambi?j? gyv?n? rezervatuose Afrikoje, kur turistai ?sp?jami nieku gyvu neišlipti iš mašin?, kol nepasieks viešbu?io. Taip pat elgiamasi ir Los Andžele.

Do I look like I'm dressed for a snake jamboree? I don't think so.

Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.

I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.

After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.

I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

I went into this little reptile park, and Steve was doing the crocodile show, coincidentally... I was absolutely floored. That was it. This man was a real-life hero. I fell then and there, love at first sight.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

I have great instincts, like the instincts of a squirrel. You know, like when you're driving and a squirrel stops in the middle of the road.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

Our hunting areas are the grocery store.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

What all these stories show is that no law of nature forces native animals to prefer their natural foods, or even to recognize them. Some do (say koalas on gum leaves) but many don't. A currawong guzzling grapes might not look quite natural to us, but the bird doesn't see it that way. By nature it is an opportunist. For our native wildlife, the foreign plants and animals flourishing in Australia today afford untold opportunities too good to pass by.