Top 342 Wildlife Quotes & Sayings

When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.

Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.

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.

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?

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

We are all consumers of wildlife. We may not realize it but there's probably something in your home or something you own that came from wildlife.

I've been interested and concerned with wildlife for a heck of a long time.

Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.

There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

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

Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

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

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

I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.

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.

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

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

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.

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

The love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that was black and white, void of animals and humans. What I missed most was the love and life of living with the wildlife. Each day I think of the ones gone and there is a deep hole in my heart. I did not miss the humans or the sounds they make, I missed the animals the sounds of peace and love that came from them. Such beauty and harmony with nature, only animals can be that smart.

Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

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

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

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Mississippians for the most part appreciate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management of our wildlife refuges and other natural resources.

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.

If you ask most wildlife film-makers or biologists what the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth is, they'll say wildebeest migration or the Great Barrier Reef - but to me it's in Alaska is the summer.

I used to hate the urban environment and the urban din. But I realize now that it's really not that much different than living next to a waterfall for wildlife. Most wildlife - unless they're specifically adapted - avoid being around a waterfall or whitewater streams and rivers because it jams their sense of surveillance. They are more vulnerable, and their message loses intelligibility. Now, the ouzel is able to overcome that in various ways. Back to the urban environment, we're talking and delivering messages as if we weren't next to a waterfall, and that's a problem.

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

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

I love to watch birds and wildlife.

A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

The illegal wildlife trade has an unacceptable human cost for those who have lived for centuries in harmony with wildlife.

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world.

There are many ways in which man thoughtlessly destroys wildlife habitat.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.