Barbara Mandrell Quotes

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

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

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

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

I have made my home among the mountain gorillas.

I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

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

In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.