Tippi Hedren Quotes

You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

The sea is a place where every day, half the population eats the other half.

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Big fish eat little fish.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.