Quotes About Wildlife

There's one place, and one place only, to see polar bears in America. You have to travel to the country's northernmost point, the very apex of Alaska's North Slope, to the permafrost shores that stretch out on either side from the Inupiat town of Kaktovik.

Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

I love Australia; it's such an outdoor life.

If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.

I love the outdoors. I love getting to hunt and fish and work on the land and ride our horses.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I do love the outdoor. Love love the outdoors, fishing and hunting and that kind of thing.

I think a lot of people know I like the outdoors, and I like to hunt and fish, and a lot of that has to do with the fall.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves...

Although they often kill out of season or at night, they usually eat what they kill. I admire them, and so I feel a flicker of distaste for this outsider.

pith helmet

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

Today, just about 380,000 acres of wetland23 remain, about 9 percent of the nearly 4 million acres that existed in the 1850s—and that was preserved only after a heroic push for restoration by environmentalists horrified by the destruction of crucial habitat for wild birds along the Pacific Flyway.

make the deer come out where you could shoot them. But maybe the kangaroo rats

Mama shook her head. "No, they don't kill for food. They kill for sport and for the thrill of the chase.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Winter was not surprised to discover that the rainforest was horrifying and awful.

Oooom-yum?" Bumblebee inquired, reaching for it. "Eeee?" "No," Cricket said. "GROSS, Bumblebee!" "GWOSE!" Bumblebee cried, waking up an anaconda as thick as Sundew's tail in the next tree over.

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

vegetarian rainforest dragon with a snap of her tail.