Quotes About Wildlife

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.

I like deer. They're kinda cool.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

To make a forty-inch fur coat it takes between thirty and two hundred chinchilla, or sixty mink, fifty sables, fifty muskrats, forty-five opossums, forty raccoons, thirty-five rabbits, twenty foxes, twenty otters, eighteen lynx, sixteen coyotes, fifteen beavers, or eight seals.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

conspiracy of lemurs

The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.

with a little penguin huddle of moles just above her hip, looking lost on that Arctic shelf.

THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

There were monkeys from India and Bangladesh, musk oxen from Tibet, snakes and lizards from Thailand and Laos, wild dogs from Burma, birds from Vietnam and Indonesia, and bats from Wuhan and Guizhou.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

Toads, beetles, bats.

The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.

No outsider was allowed to glimpse the mansion when Elisabeth was in residence. She could go walking for hours, observing the deer (she always carried wooden rattles with her to protect her from wild boars, who were afraid of the noise) or composing poems.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

If the horse hurts an owner, the animal gets the blame. The BLM also created a program in which prisoners are given the opportunity to work with captive wild horses. They gentle them and get them to the point where they are ridable. This is an excellent idea.