Quotes About Wildlife

Fences split up the territory that a hedgehog has to forage in so having a little hole in your fence could well enable it to move in and out of your garden.

A brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

What the hell was that?" "Puma," he said. "Mountain lion." "I knew that was a lion." She stopped suddenly. "You didn't hurt him, did you?" "Marcie, he wanted to eat you! Are you worried about his soul or something?" "I just wanted him to go away," she said. "I didn't want him to go dead." -Marcie and Ian

I mean, I don't want to pass judgment—I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer." "Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband—the deer are completely safe.

Great. I'm with the hottest man I've ever known and raccoons have crawled through my hair and settled under my eyes.

Bear's toenails clicking up

Why did people think that was okay, to kill something and stick its head on your wall?

Sometimes it seems like Florida is trying to kill its residents, doesn't it? It wants us to go away so that it can reclaim its swampy self, be left alone to its darkness—alligators, snakes, and roaches free from pavement and walls of condo buildings, and wildlife corridors butting up against superhighways.

The crocodile river was such fun. Two tourists were eaten in huge gulps but it was not sad at all because they were French.

Money, power, sex ... and elephants.

I'm the one who feeds the lions their raw meat.

Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That is something that one just has to put up with from time to time, and it serves to prove how simpatico the animals are.

Only an island as lackadaisical as this would allow itself to be infested by such troupes of casual and impertinent goats.

Once he paused near a small stream to watch a dipper bob up and down on a rock. He saw a school of trout lurking in a shady place where a branch hung low on the water. No amount of seeing ever made nature old to him, and he was conscious of every movement and sound.

Bats and birds taken from those mountains

We live in wild country, sir. I know folks who think all wild things are sweet and cuddly, but they've never come into a henhouse after a weasel has been there. He can drink the blood of only one or two, but often as not he'll kill every one of them. Wolves will do it in a pen of lambs, too. There are savage beasts in the world, Mr. Chantry, and men who are just as savage.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

They slaughtered all the game they could find and so muddied the rivers and creeks with silt that the once plentiful salmon couldn't survive. The herds of elk and deer, the food source for Native Americans, were practically wiped out in one summer.

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

four tumbling, squealing cubs

Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?

elephant's trumpeting