Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

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

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.

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.

Loving everyone does not mean everyone will love you. Love everyone because you want to expand your world.

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied "There's a first time for everything so try to be funny and brief."

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.