Wildlife Quotes

Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

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

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

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

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

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

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

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

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

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?

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

We are all consumers of wildlife. We may not realize it but there's probably something in your home or something you own that came from wildlife.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

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."

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.

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

There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

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

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

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.

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

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

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.