E. O. Wilson Quotes

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.

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.

I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

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.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

I'm a nature lover.

I'm the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League America. So, I'd go on morning shows on their behalf. I also work closely with the Wildlife Rescue Center in the Hamptons.

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

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

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

Cherish your wilderness.