Quotes About Wildlife

Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it...

The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.

Folk will tell ye that owls havena got an arsehole, so they canna pass the things they eat—like mice, aye? So the bones and the hairs and such are all made up into a ball, and the owl vomits them out, not bein' able to get rid of them out the other end.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

I think we should drill up in Alaska.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

The jungle is like a different planet — a world of shadows, bugs, jaguars, anacondas. But none of these animals did us as much harm as the humans.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents are even more balls

I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest… pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

Thus use your frog…. Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;… and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

Don't ever step on a driver ant. If you do, fifty million of its pals could swarm all over you. Great. That's all I need, to be attacked by ants. I'd rather be attacked by ants than by a golden poison dart frog. It has enough poison in it to kill ten grown men. In that case, I'm glad I'm not a grown man yet.

I'd rather be attacked by ants than by a golden poison dart frog. It has enough poison in it to kill ten grown men. In that case, I'm glad I'm not a grown man yet. But I bet a golden poison dart frog wouldn't want to get into a fight with a blue-ringed octopus. It's only the size of a golf ball, but it has enough venom to kill twenty-six people.

Feral cats have markings that will allow them to hide among the plants and grasses.

Cats are felines

Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

Shark Conservation

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia's economy and quality of life.