Native Wildlife Quotes

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

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

After all, island living is where I began on Taransay, and I have such fond memories of it.