I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

You can either complain about it or grind, I choose to grind.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

When we do 'Sports Illustrated, ' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.