Wild Animal Encounters Quotes

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

We had a cabin in the mountains - and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They're really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they're a momma.

Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

I'm kind of scared of bears.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.