Quotes About Wildlife

I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

I've swum with dolphins in Mozambique and with bull sharks off Mexico. They didn't tell me how dangerous the sharks were until after I got out.

The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

The point in Yalbury Wood which abutted on the end of Geoffrey Day's premises was closed with an ancient tree, horizontally of enormous extent ,though having no great pretensions to height. Many hundreds of birds had been born amidst the boughs of this single tree: tribes of rabbits and hares had nibbled at it's bark from year to year; quaint tufts of fungi had sprung from the cavities of it's forks; and countless families of moles and earthworms had crept about its roots.

I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.

You can't walk the last hundred yards, too marshy-mushy. Not that you'd want to. Gator country. Snap, Snap.

Singing hyenas, pounding African rhythms, and lion cub romance kept me from thinking of the murders for hours.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

It was quiet in the jungle, the kind of quiet that rings in your ears.

Equus przewalskii—the Przewalskii

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

Yellowstone, a place so special and awe-inspiring that after exploring it in 1871, the Hayden Expedition conceived of the original concept of the world's first national park—a set-aside of 2. 2 million acres containing more than ten thousand thermal features, canyons, waterfalls, and wildlife—so no man or corporation could ever own it.

In Wyoming, the people owned the game animals, and they took their ownership to heart.

Pronghorn antelope were the second fastest mammals on earth—only an African cheetah could outrun them.

there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun.

trophy hunters,

Joe Pickett's

pronghorns were the second fastest land animal on earth, after cheetahs

Ducks and geese covered the lake like errant punctuation.

Outside the tent, it was cold, still, clear, and breathtakingly beautiful. Bright white sun danced on the ripples of Yellowstone Lake and electrified the dew in the grass. A bald eagle cruised along the surface of the water, talons dropped, fishing. Far across the water was the smudge of an island in the lake. Boils of steam rose from vents and dissipated in the clear morning air. She smelled woodsmoke from the fire and heard subdued voices from the kitchen camp.

Coyotes did coyote things.