Quotes About Wildlife

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

A hawk reeled overhead with a rodent squirming in its beak, close enough so you could see the bird's black shiny eyes.

trout and a flounder

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

Nobody owns the hearts of birds.

Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.

the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye

Have you stood, staring out over the swamps, the swirling rivers where the birds like tossing fires flash through the trees, their bodies exchanging a certain happiness in the sleek, amazing humdrum of nature's design — blood's heaven, spirit's haven, to which you cannot belong?

The honey guide leads a Masai tribesperson to a beehive. The bird waits for him or her to scatter the bees and take the honey. Then the bird feasts on the honeycomb.

The sabertooth crept forward.

Every year, in late spring, thousands of zebras and gazelles and millions of wildebeests (WILL-duh-beests) migrate from the dry plains of Tanzania to Kenya.

Before they are safe in Kenya, the animals must first cross the Mara River. Zebras go first, then the wildebeests. The tiny gazelles swim last.

Zebras live in family groups. As no two zebras have exactly the same pattern of stripes, every baby zebra must learn its own mother's pattern.

On the African plains, the hyena (hi-EE-nuh) is the ruling predator after the lion. It makes a sound similar to a high-pitched human laugh.

The hyena has a reputation for being a thief and a coward.

Sloths don't move a lot, but when they need to escape from a predator, they can actually be pretty fast. They are also good swimmers.

antelopes, wild hogs, and gorillas.

Mountain gorillas live together in families. The leader of the family is a large male called a "silverback" because he has silver fur on his back and shoulders. Gorillas do not hunt other animals. They mainly eat the plant growth of the forest. They are known to be shy and gentle giants.

Snowplows kill twice as many Canadians as grizzly bears do.

The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels.

So she looks in her rearview mirror," one is saying, "and there's a bear in the back seat, eating popcorn." When wildlife officers gather at a conference, the shop talk is outstanding. Last night I stepped onto the elevator as a man was saying, "Ever tase an elk?

Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!' What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology.

For most of the past century, your odds of being killed by a cougar were about the same as your odds of being killed by a filing cabinet. Snowplows kill twice as many Canadians as grizzly bears do.