Quotes About Wildlife

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

And now this life that she had built again was coming to a term because he had not used iodine two weeks ago when a thorn had scratched his knee as they moved forward trying to photograph a herd of waterbuck standing, their heads up, peering while their nostrils searched the air, their ears spread wide to hear the first noise that would send them rushing into the bush.

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The

Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?

Pelicans are simply an ungrateful mouth on wings.

Put a wildlife camera in your campsite overnight and you'll be surprised and possibly frightened by the amount of nature that comes strolling and slithering through.

There are two. In the first, three years ago, a self-proclaimed grizzly expert was killed. I'd personally rule that a suicide.

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.

There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

Humpback whales - which can be as long as 60 feet, weigh as much as 40 tons and can live for 50 years - are found in all of the world's oceans.

If I pull in a fish I have no intention of eating, I release him immediately or give it away. If he's swallowed the hook and you know the fish is going to die, rather than leave him to the sharks you should bring him in for the vitamin content. Aquariums welcome fish for feeding the dolphins and whales.

In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.