Quotes on the topic: Wildlife


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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.


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.'


I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.


My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.


Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.


All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.


I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.


Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.


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


Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.


I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.


Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.


I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.


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


With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.


In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.


I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.


I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.


I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.


I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.