Jacques Cousteau Quotes

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.