Quotes About Wildlife

Turkey hunting is my passion because I love the thrill of calling them in.

Turkey hunting is my thing; it's only once a year, but if it's turkey season, don't call me, because I won't answer.

What I love about elk hunting is its similarities to turkey hunting. When you call to a bull elk, and it comes in ripping things apart and sounding like a herd of buffalo coming at you, it's exciting!

When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys. My love of the outdoors kept me solid.

People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.

I grew up and fell out of love with hunting, though I still appreciate the meats I grew up eating: braised rabbit, pheasant jambalaya, snapping turtle soup, and venison backstrap with eggs.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

It wasn't everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of the road,...

Country living—and definitely living in the country with a lot of animals—isn't peaceful. It's full of blood and guts and murder and rivalry and treachery and chaos, in a lovely green pitiless world.

Alligators like on the banks by the creeping moss/ And use the sinews of their prey to do their daily floss.

the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But

a third gets eaten by a pack of those fluffy squirrels,

There is always something new out of Africa.

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I love South Africa.

My wife and I went on a safari break in Singita, South Africa, for our honeymoon and then we went back for our 10th anniversary, which was amazing.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.

If you want to understand how vapid are the current modernistic arguments (and understand your existential priorities), consider the difference between lions in the wild and those in captivity. Lions in captivity live longer; they are technically richer, and they are guaranteed job security for life, if these are the criteria you are focusing on …

In nature even the most hideous of creatures are attracted to one another.

and as the worms pant for your bones, I would so like to tell you that this happens to bears and elephants