Michael Douglas Quotes

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

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.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

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.

It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

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

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

Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal's memories of one day's contact might well be reflected in the following day's behavior.

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

I've worked with PETA on freeing elephants from the circus.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

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

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.