Wildlife Quotes - Page 5

• We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Appreciate, Limits

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• The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.

  Walt Disney

  Practice, Water, Generations

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• It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Dog, Animal, Captivity

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• 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!

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Ems, Reason

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• 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!

  Steve Irwin

  Kryptonite, Desire, Uncanny

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

  Jim Fowler

  World, Around The World, Film

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• 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.

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Years, Two

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• I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Running, Thinking, Nuclear

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Vices, Camels

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

  Patrick Bergin

  World, Remnants, Stills

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

  Ben Nelson

  Energy, Pills, Poison

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• I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

  Betty White

  Dog, Zoos, Cat

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

  Asa Butterfield

  Photography, Taken, School

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

  Scott Baio

  Country, Nice, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.

  George H. Harrison

  Photography, Hands, Water

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• People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

  Montel Williams

  Animal, People, Important

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

  David Letterman

  Hunting, Oil, Palin

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• The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, People, Adoption

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do.

  Kristy Hinze

  Weed, Team, Animal

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• Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

  Prince Charles

  Agriculture, Environmental, Benefits

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• I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

  Terri Irwin

  Passion, Long, People

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Oil, Opening Up

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• The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

  Liz Marshall

  Animal, Reality, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Studs Terkel

  Cities, Balance, Difficult

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.191, The New Press

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