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Wildlife Quotes

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We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.
Steve Irwin

Authors on Wildlife Quotes: Steve Irwin Patrick Bergin Aldo Leopold Sylvia Earle Jane Goodall Terri Irwin Lois Crisler Viswanathan Anand Nigel Dennis Dian Fossey David Letterman Jim Fowler Ricky Schroder Bella Freud O.R. Melling Bob Ney Stephen Ambrose David Jeremiah Barron Jeff Corwin James Balog Studs Terkel David Quammen Jeff Goodell Theodore Roosevelt Paul Saffo Allen Crawford Jennifer Morgan Tom Daschle Dan Lipinski James Cook Rachel Carson Russell Brand Doug Peacock
2.
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin

3.
If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.
Steve Irwin

4.
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.
Dian Fossey

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Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.
Richard Dawkins

6.
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
Dian Fossey

7.
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.
Theodore Roosevelt

8.
My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get 'em!
Steve Irwin

9.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski

10.
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
Bob Ney

11.
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
James Cook

12.
When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.
Patrick Bergin

13.
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.
Steve Irwin

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The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.
Doug Peacock

15.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
Nigel Dennis

16.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Stephen Ambrose

17.
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
Jeff Goodell

18.
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
David Quammen

19.
The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
Steve Irwin

20.
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
Rachel Carson

21.
Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.
Lois Crisler

22.
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!
Steve Irwin

23.
Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.
Terri Irwin

24.
Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world
Jennifer Morgan

25.
I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
Ricky Schroder

26.
I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.
Jeff Corwin

27.
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?
O.R. Melling

28.
If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?
Steve Irwin

29.
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
John Cleese

30.
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
Sylvia Earle

31.
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand

32.
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.
Patrick Bergin

33.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
Steve Irwin

34.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.
Aldo Leopold

35.
Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
Russell Brand

36.
It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.
Nikhil Advani

37.
There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
Jane Goodall

38.
They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.
David Letterman

39.
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
Jim Fowler

40.
I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
Nigel Dennis

41.
Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.
Lois Crisler

42.
We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.
Veronika Varekova

43.
Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.
Sylvia Earle

44.
I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.
Paul Saffo

45.
While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.
Tom Daschle

46.
You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.
Terri Irwin

47.
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.
Patrick Bergin

48.
A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
Aldo Leopold

49.
I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."
Eyvind Kang

50.
A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.
Patrick Bergin