Suraj Sharma Quotes

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

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

Deer are as plentiful as chickens on a farm.

Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Elephants are contagious.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

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

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.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Endangered species are our friends.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

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

This snake's hard to kill.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact..