Quotes About Wildlife

My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds and buffaloes everywhere.

I'll always feel most comfortable in khaki surrounded by animals, but it is really fun to try different styles.

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

It's killing for fun or profit I can't stand. There's a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and pain these effects may cause, but if you pay any attention to the statistics it is clear that nature is not out to get us.

a kid snatched from the jaws of a savage wolf," which sounds suspiciously like the first-century equivalent of roadkill.

A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"

In the next long minute, he felt an understanding spread deep down inside him, an understanding that he'd only felt with animals before--with poor old Hilda and the hawks he'd seen in tall bare trees and that buck deer, long ago in the woods, that spoke Ben's name and told him the world was a fine place to live, hard but fine.

It's like spending millions of dollars on shark patrols. In Utah.

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

In this chapter I will tell you all about what penguins eat.

Emus are little more than feathered stomachs borne on mighty legs and ruled by a tiny brain. If an emu wants one of your sandwiches, he will get it, and then run away. He cannot help you with your sudoku.

How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?

He calls it speleogenesis by elephants—the creation of a cave by elephants.

He was an amateur naturalist, fond of birds and animals but not of humanity in general.

Only very rarely does an animal living under natural conditions in the wild die of old age.

We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.

Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.

A moose tried to eat us, Hearth signed. "Excuse me?" I asked. "A moose?" Hearth grunted in exasperation. He spelled out: D-E-E-R. Same sign for both animals. "Oh, that's much better," I said. "A deer tried to eat you.

hooligan posse of gulls wheeled noisily overhead

He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers.