The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

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.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.