Quotes About Wildlife

Discover wildlife: be a teacher!

Monkey in the tree,Lion on the ground.Monkey kept on signifyingBut he didn't come down.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

The difference between a mountain goat and a swan is that swan mucks around the fountains.

All animals of the forest are alike, though we eat some and not others, because we the Dorobo and the animals all live side by side in the forest.

Down there came a fallow doeAs great with young as she might go.

There were three ravens sat on a tree,They were as black as they might be.The one of them said to his mate,"Where shall we our breakfast take?"

But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

Five months ago the hillside beyond the wire was home to red squirrels black finches pygmy shrews garter snakes downy woodpeckers swallowtail butterflies wolf lichen monkey flowers ten thousand voles five million ants. Now what is it?

Only about one in fifteen great grey eggs hatch and make it to adulthood. Hatchlings get eaten by ravens, martens, black bears, and great horned owls; nestlings often starve. Because they require such extensive hunting grounds, great greys are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss: cattle trample meadows, decimating prey numbers; wildfires incinerate nesting areas; the owls eat rodents that have eaten poison, die in vehicle collisions, and fly into utility wires.

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.

There are almost no foreseeable benefits and the damage to the environment, to wildlife and to tourism will be irreversible.

Most Americans support protection of public lands.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.

Sharks freak me out.

After becoming an engineer, I worked for a year in Faridabad. I was so bored. I used to live in a one-room apartment, and every night I would come back to a frog in my bathroom.

A body has to move gentle and speak low when wild things are about.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.