Dominic Monaghan Quotes

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.

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.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

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

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.

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.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.

Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is.

Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.

Animals don't deserve to be abused. They deserve to be friends with us and they deserve to be appreciated for the beautiful beings they are.

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.

I'm Mrs. Steve Irwin. I've got a lot to live up to.

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.

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

We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.

I love literally every animal.

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

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

The enduring image I will keep of Jane Goodall is of her emotional goodbye to a chimp she had rescued and nurtured, on the day of the animal's release.