Quotes About Wildlife

That day there was no sun only a paleness in the haze and the country was white with frost and the shrubs were like polar isomers of their own shapes. Wild rams ghosted away up those rocky draws and the wind swirled down cold and gray from the snowy reeks above them, a smoking region of wild vapors blowing down through the gap as if the world up there were all afire.

The cranes were moving south and he watched their thin echelons trail along those unseen corridors writ in their blood a hundred thousand years.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

I's the look-out! I's the look-out! AAAAAAGHHHH! There's a jagular! There's a jagular! Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ohhhh Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, sorrys, my mistake, is a treetrunk. SORRYS, everybody Ã¢â'¬Â¦

There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

Those who believe in the "balance of nature" are those who don't get eaten.

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

I found a snake in my yard, and got a shovel and whacked the hell out of it. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

walked on, thinking about the newspaper article I'd recently come across about three women in California—each one had been killed by a mountain lion on separate occasions over the past year—and

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

The night was filled with insects and a hesitant breeze that seemed to change direction with each gust.

The deer isn't crossing the road. It's crossing the forest.

On average a panda bear feeds about 12 hours per day. This is the same as a human adult at home under quarantine — which is why we call it a PANDEMIC.

Discover wildlife: Be a teacher!

Burning lemurs of bloody Madagascar!

As the Jeannette drew nearer to the equator, the waters became oily calm and teemed with eels, tortoises, and dolphins.

It's a fish eagle, Jock.' 'It sounds so sad.' He nodded. 'It is. They mate for life and if their mate dies they never take another. That's the sound they make when they've lost their mate.' It was something I will never forget. Even now, years later, when I watch the sun go down, I still hear it, an echo from my past.

Possum soup, all nice and thick with peanuts

In alligators, the temperature of an egg as it develops determines the sex of its inhabitant: low temperatures create females, high temps make males. The same is true for tortoises, but

The only good cage is an empty cage.

Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.

Wild. If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.