Wildlife Interaction Quotes

Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just as they have to be taught it is all right to kill and eat them.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.

Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

I have friends who come to the Australia Zoo, and it's just, instead of playing video games, we get to hug and kiss a giraffe or walk a tiger.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them. I have figs, too, which are great with prosciutto, of course. I have limes and lemons, which I use to make lemonade.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

I’ve looked monkeys in the eye, and I see a relative.