Jerry Garcia Quotes

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

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

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

Bindi's been filming with us since she first hatched.

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact..

There is much concern these days about the taking of wild animals for sport, but against that must be placed the protection given to wild habitats and many other wild species in the process of keeping game … as with everything in nature, it is all a question of balance and this balance can only be achieved by knowledge and understanding …

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.

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

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

I've had pigeons, doves, mice. I had a cat, dogs.

I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

My older six are animals.

I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.