Quotes About Wildlife

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

My job, my mission, the reason I've been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin' with me. Yeah, let's get 'em!

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

We don't own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

medieval attitudes such as "the only good croc is a dead one," "the only good shark is a dead shark," "there's a snake—quick, kill it.

If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.

and I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

Every single day of our lives involves wildlife education. We must teach, spread the word, the wildlife gospel.

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

For example, as you're reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.

There are still countries that kill dolphins for use as crab bait!

Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.

An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.

I kept a few turtles and tortoises and maybe a snake in my apartment in New York City, off and on. Maybe sometimes against my better judgment.