Quotes About Wildlife

What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them.

But then she looked into the single brown eye of the gaunt, half-naked woman facing her, and a wolf looked back at her—a wounded pack leader, starved and weakened, who had been goaded and harried by the hounds on its back trail but would be harried no more. A wolf who would die where it stood rather than be driven further.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

So you see, if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry- be assured, zoo animals are amply fed- or because it's blood thirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Cum o fi oare sentimentul de singur?tate la animale?

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

It was wonderful country that faced him, cedar, piñon and sage, colored hills and flats, walls of yellow rock stretch away, and dim purple mountains all around. If his keen eyes did not deceive him there was a bunch of wild horses grazing on top of the first hill.

They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

I'm afraid of peacocks.

Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

Here it says that snapping turtles eat crayfish, snails, insects, fish, frogs, salamanders, reptiles, birds, mammals, and aquatic plants. Gee, with a diet like that, we ought to be able to argue that they won't be eating many fish." "That's good," Greta agreed. "We could also make the case that they control snakes. My mom would go for that.

Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears, as they may be crossing the Scioto and Sandusky.

The scrotum of a buck, tanned with the hair on, makes a good tobacco-pouch.

More often than not, the wolves showed themselves in other ways—a track etched in the mud, a few scats here and there, the well-chewed, moss-covered bones of a Sitka blacktailed deer, and, most frequently and possibly most grand of all, a late-evening chorus of howls heard from the deck of our boat at a lonely anchorage. The sound echoed softly off the high granite walls of some slope or side hill, somewhere where the wolves hunted in the vast sea of verdant rain forest.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

Alex the lion in the Madagascar

out of the nest. He estimated the clutch had been around fifty eggs

Gorman had spent hours looking at them over time through the rifle scope that he carried with him to enhance his already superb eyesight.

You have to give it (the tiger) room. If you don't give it room, it will bite you.

You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.

There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.