Terri Irwin Quotes

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

Cherish your wilderness.

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

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

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

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

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.

In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.