Quotes About Wildlife

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.

I am trying different styles, and while you can't climb a tree or jump on a crocodile in a dress, it is nice to get dressed up every now and then and kind of walk away from the khaki for a moment.

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

I love watching birds of prey and stags.

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

A crocodile just swung around and hit me with its teeth. It took a big chunk off my leg.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: "I think I shall praise it."

We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.

Estamos a desistir da liberdade (...) e com a perda da liberdade, o cowboy desaparece, juntamente com o leão da montanha e o lobo cinzento.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

I already know I'm smarter than an armadillo.

Do bears shit in the woods?

As Qwilleran approached it a squirrel ran up a tree, looked down at him, and scolded.

Lincoln Child