Quotes About Wildlife

The lush greenness of the pastures infused Shiloh. Overhead, she saw a red-tailed hawk flying in higher and higher circles in the sky. There were bluebirds everywhere, many of them sitting on fence posts. When they took off, that flash of brilliant blue always made her gasp with delight; it was almost an unearthly gorgeous color.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

And now it was a dozen hornbills hopping, like fragments of a disordered imagination, through a cloud of orchids.

The turtles and birds who lived on the islands were also very friendly, as they hardly ever saw any humans and were always pleased to have some company.

They were silent. It was not easy to see a solution to the problem of human need. It was easy to condemn those who stole, who poached wildlife, until you were asked what would you do if your only other option was starvation? That made it harder.

They drink blood, he tells me. Who? Leopards. Why? For fun. Leopard beer. He laughs.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." "Never

The bush was alive with excitement.

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

country without wolves isn't really good country. It's incomplete. It doesn't have its full spirit.

Other objects found in shark stomachs include a suit of armor, a barrel of nails, a roll of tar paper, coal, raincoats, shoes, plastic bags, goats, sheep, lizards, snakes, chicken, reindeer, and monkeys.

Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.

kangaroos. They were technically nocturnal

Befriending a lion on its home turf was one thing, allowing it to roam free in Manhattan was quite another.

Today the wolverines of the Lower 48 are confined to a few remote parts of Montana, Idaho, and northern Wyoming, with perhaps a dozen more in Washington's North Cascades. They total no more than 500 and more likely number just 300 or fewer.