Bindi Irwin Quotes

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

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

… monkeys …

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Endangered species are our friends.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.