Quotes About Wildlife

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.

Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others.

Markov died while trying to fit a small, slippery shotgun shell into a narrow gun barrel, in the dark, at thirty below zero—with a tiger bearing down on him from ten yards away.

Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

To wear the arctic foxyou have to kill it.

We stared at each other for a moment, then burst into laughter that must have scared off every nonhuman animal for half a mile around.

Wild animals. I had not, until that moment, put dragons in that class. I had thought them something apart.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that.

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

There are no other Everglades in the world…. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning of the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.