Quotes About Wildlife

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles — or perhaps caricatures — of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch.

Boa Constrictor

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Blood oozed from deep puncture wounds at his neck and shoulder. His right arm flopped unnaturally. From the middle of his back to his waist, the bear's raking claws left deep, parallel cuts. It reminded Harris of tree trunks he had seen where bears mark their territory, only these marks were etched in flesh instead of wood. On the back of Glass's thigh, blood seeped through his buckskin breeches. Harris

Happily, nobody saves mountain gorillas, yellow-eyed penguins, and sea turtles because they believe human civilization depends on it. We save them for a simpler reason: we love them.90

Ninety-eight percent of the blue whales killed globally after the ban in 1966 were killed by Soviet whalers," wrote a historian, "as were 92 percent of the 1,201 humpbacks killed commercially between 1967 and 1978."99

It's impossible for a person to retaliate against the government," Madden said. "But you can retaliate against the wildlife that the government is trying to protect. It is a symbolic retaliation. It's a 'Screw you' psychological retaliation.

Putting teeth into the law, India listed all cetacean species in Schedule II, Part I of the Wild Life Protection Act of 1972, adding that dolphins should be considered as "nonhuman persons."63 This granting of legal personhood to a nonhuman animal is a monumental step toward justice and freedom for all sentient beings.

encroachment of natural habitats that have brought animal reservoirs of disease to our doorsteps,

Here's what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they're going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

You are the lion & I am the owl, now, before either became aware of the existence of man.

The jungle had no predatory mammals, but rodents and small marsupials scurried in the underbrush.

Cats are small lions. Lions are big cats.

Myxomatosis,

Since you cannot mix wolves with sheep, why would anyone dare to compare a lion with the lamb?

The eagle may rule the sky, but the lion will always rule the jungle.

The tiger is the king of himself while the lion is the king of pride and the jungle.

His mane is made of short rainbows.

A hawk sailed past the sun, its shadow slithering in the grass.