Quotes About Wildlife

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

Let her have her moose.

Cherish your wilderness.

I like seals.

He will lift up the limp bodies of the rabbits and show me how he caught them square between the eyes, and the bright bodies of male and female pheasants with shot in the breast and their necks hanging broken and their eyes half open in the voluptuous death he loves. He will be a knife leaning above me as he kisses me.

So I woke, I listened, and I heard the small sounds of a wood at night, the things moving, the claws in the dead leaves, the wind's soft sighs.

when you're in a rain forest, where the density and diversity of wildlife are the greatest, you will always hear critters entering the soundscape each day in a structured order, almost as if following Darwin's timeline of evolution: insects first, then amphibians, then reptiles, then birds, then mammals." [from an interview in Sun Magazine © 2014]

Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I'm always aware that under the spritely twitter of birds, bones are being crunched and ribbons of flesh are being stripped away, all of it the work of bright-eyed creatures without feeling or conscience. I don't look to nature for comfort or serenity.

I'm not the kind of person who sentimentalizes nature. The outdoors, as far as I can see, is made up almost entirely of copulating creatures who eat one another afterwards.

loud: for a son who was a hunter, for a daughter who would look after her parents when they were old, for an easy birth. The animals knew the goodness of that place. Caribou, lynx, bear came to drink. Muskrats made their lodges along the banks of the outlet rivers that flowed to the North Sea. In summers there were birds—mergansers, grebes, loons. In winter, the lake was a fine place to catch blackfish

If you think the country is quiet, you've never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs.

If you think the country is quiet, you've never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs.

They showed no fear, despite the presence of several baby spinners tucked in beside their mothers, replicas the size of bowling pins.

But while it's tempting to project onto dolphins all the superpowers we wish we had ourselves, I knew (on an intellectual level, anyway), that these were creatures who have it in them to be cranky and withdrawn and have their own version of a bad day.

June 23 is World Giraffe Day

Giraffe gestation is about thirteen to fifteen months.

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

They tumbled out of the van, eager to explore the docks. There were brown pelicans and sea lions, anemones and barnacles clinging to the planks and pilings, and silver flashes of schooling minnows in the shallows.