Quotes About Wildlife

I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

They were about a foot tall, and something about their matching size and identical bandit masks, coupled with their misjudgment of aspens as an escape route, gave me a sense of real glee at the originality of things.

It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward

The Third Count: Dolphins don't like humans that much and never have. In fact, people who have been in the water with wild dolphins have been bumped, rammed, bitten, and, in one case, even killed by dolphins. The permanent smile on the faces of some species of dolphin is purely anatomical, no more indicative of the animal's state of mind than are the tusks on an elephant. You moron.

Photography teaches me to be observant," said Serge. "Discipline. Becoming one with the environment so I don't miss even the smallest detail." A skunk ape crossed the road behind him.

beg them to compare the Oostvaardersplassen not with their dreamtime Europe of the classical age, but with a long-vanished continent where large mammals, rather than agricultural practices, shaped landscapes.

There are now more wolves in Europe than in the United States, including Alaska!

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house.

I'm obsessed with great white sharks. And I want to dive into the coral of the Great Barrier Reef.

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there? Mel shook his head. By the wolves, he said.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. That would be a hell of a zoo. The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.

Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Bears that dance, bears that don't.

They were all day among the dunes and in the evening coming down from the last low sandhills to the plain below among catclaw and crucifixion thorn they were a parched and haggard lot man and beast. Harpie eagles flew up screaming from a dead mule and wheeled off westward into the sun as they led the horses out onto the plain.