Bill Nelson Quotes

The crown jewel of our national park system has been transformed into a hunting ground for these predators. It's just a matter of time before one of these snakes gets to a visitor.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

The loss of global biological diversity is advancing at an unprecedented pace.

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

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.

Tell the president that the buffalo is my old friend, and it would make my heart glad to see a heard once more roaming around.

For the most part we don’t have an immediate impact on the species that surrounds us. But we do have an immediate impact on their habitat which determines whether they survive on in some cases shift their ground.

Relocating animals would be a major departure from the last half-century of conservation practice in the U. S.

Pollution, overfishing, the destruction of habitats, and climate change are emptying the oceans and enabling the lowest forms of life to regain their dominance.

That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.

We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

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