Wildlife Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

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

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

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.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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!

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?

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