Gale Norton Quotes

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.

The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

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

The Sioux would be much opposed to the passage of so large a body through their country, and would probably resist it on account of the emigrants destroying and frightening away the buffaloes, which were then diminishing in numbers.

To preserve the buffalo as a species, the best thing we can do is eat them. Animals that people eat do not become extinct. That's why we have so many more chickens than bald eagles in this country.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another.

Human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Relocating animals would be a major departure from the last half-century of conservation practice in the U. S.

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We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.