Terri Irwin Quotes

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

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 play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.

Take good care of our fragile planet.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not occur ... protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

Cherish your wilderness.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?