Michael J. Fox Quotes

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.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

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.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

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.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

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?

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

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

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

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

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.

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.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

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.

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

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.