Harrison Ford Quotes

They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good.

I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Study nature, not books.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

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

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

The crown jewel of our national park system has been transformed into a hunting ground for these predators. It's just a matter of time before one of these snakes gets to a visitor.

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

Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit.

I think it is good to grow up on a farm, with nature, with animals and everything when you are young.

I had aquariums of bullfrogs and mudpuppies. My poor mom had to deal with me incubating chicken eggs in my bedroom.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.