Quotes About Wildlife

First, local guides were engaged, and all three—Frank Carson, Les Hibble, and Sam Thompson—warned that the planned ramble was far riskier than the Northern men realized, even before the campers reached the massive Everglades. The region between Fort Myers and the 'Glades was prowled by panthers and bears. The panthers lurked in the brush and made sounds like babies crying. If you were fooled and went to look, you would be attacked.

Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time.

You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

I am writing this sitting in the waterlogged lobby of a rotting, half-finished condominium complex. I am surrounded by cavorting freshwater seals and have two pearl-handled revolvers in my lap, a bottle of vodka in my right hand, a human body in the freezer in the kitchens behind me, and a rather large displaced rockhopper penguin staring me in the face.

Brown or green in color, they are toothless and sometimes warty in appearance

Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.

the flying fish and the diving bird had been netted.

That wild animals have largely moved out of our view is of small note to many of us. We think, abstractly, that they live out there somewhere, browsing or flying or killing or doing whatever it is they do, and we think that we are keeping them among us by the sheer force of our desire, even as we consume, insatiably, the places where they live.

was populated by hundreds of sea elephants, enough to keep them supplied with food and fuel indefinitely

The overcast sky seemed almost alive with birds—Cape pigeons, terns, fulmars

Whales, too, seemed everywhere. They surfaced on all sides, sometimes frighteningly close

The animal—a sea leopard—sprang out of the water and came after him

The beast looked like a small dinosaur, with a long, serpentine neck.

The sea leopard's jawbone, which measured nearly 9 inches across

The next morning, three seals were sighted, and Macklin was sent out with Tom Crean to fetch them.

stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes & God knows what else, with a cup of water" to wash it down.

Thousands of penguins dotted the pack in every direction

All hands were put to the slaughter, bringing in every penguin that could be reached.

The Adélie, however, is a small and not very meaty bird

Finner, humpback, and huge blue whales, some of them a hundred feet long

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Plenty more birds in the sea, the man said. Plenty more plastic bottles.

Ze weten het. Die daemondingen. Ze weten hoe ik dieren haat... Dat luipaard. Ik heb er jaren nachtmerries van gehad. Vroeger hield ik van dieren. Zij hielden ervan... pap en mam. Ze wijdden hun leven aan de bescherming van dieren tegen stropers. Na hun dood deed elk dier me aan hen denken.' - Nick 'Ik denk dat ik dat net zo voel. Maar je weet dat het niet de schuld was van dat luipaard.' - Claire

What birds are these wildgeese—flying from precincts where the earth and oceans end— with their enormous wings and speckled throats?