Tippi Hedren Quotes

The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

I want to be a Tiger.

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you're going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you're going to take every precaution that you can. But others - we just need a little flexibility.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again

Those Grizzlies are more like pandas.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.