Famous Quotes & Sayings

There was also a concern if we found any dead animals in the house. But the biggest thing, as far as safety, was the mold. We all bought respirator masks before we went down there and we made sure we had those on.

There's very few people who are not fascinated by a wild animal that seems to recognize us, and bring us into their world. All Timothy Treadwell is and was is a more heightened and more intense version of that same impulse in ourselves.

This is a very exciting result. It's the first demonstration that animals can survive a reentry event similar to what would be experienced inside a meteorite. It shows directly that even complex small creatures originating on one planet could survive landing on another without the protection of a spacecraft.

Once this legislation is enacted, our law will be worthy of our reputation as a nation of animal lovers.

Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

Once people realized they could tag and they could follow organisms it just became a standard method. And once anything becomes standard, people sort of forget that it is an invasive treatment and it might have implications on the animals being tagged.

Nothing ultimately stopped the wolf depredation in the White Clouds. Rarely do we know which animal was responsible for killing the livestock. This makes it difficult to stop depredation. If we had had a better management tool we would not have had to use lethal control in the white clouds.

Not only because of the animals welfare but certainly also the public welfare. Given the link between animal fighting and interpersonal crime.

The neck was one of the biggest surprises. This freed the skull from the shoulder girdle and gave the animal extra mobility.

Bruce Friedrich

It's not a health food. It's not something anybody needs to eat. These animals are pulled out of the environment, transported, denied sustenance, kept frustrated with their claws locked, and boiled alive. These animals are put through felony-level cruelty, just to give some diner a moment of gastronomic pleasure.

It's really a sign of hope and rebuilding. It was a big rallying point for our staff, they've gone through so much, losing animals they worked with for 20-plus years.

Any animal that lives around the vents usually smells pretty foul. Everything we bring up smells bad. Pretty soon the whole ship smells bad.

Any animal in the zoo has a potential to be dangerous whether it looks like a fluffy little animal or something obviously as big as an elephant.

It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals. One just has to watch and see what happens because the virus has the property to evolve.

It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals.

It's a great way to put stuff out, send it out, let everybody read it and then say 'Oops,' ... You'd hear them screaming like wounded animals if we did the same to them. So that's it. I'm just not going to sink to their level.

It's all in a day's work. We recognize how important animals are to people.

It's a human safety issue as much as an animal issue. People drowned because they wouldn't leave their pets.

Tippi Hedren

It quickly became obvious to us that not only the animals in the wild had a problem, but so did the animals in captivity.

Steve Goodman

It is truly an honor to have such an animal named after me, ... but this is really a joint tribute to all of the scientists and students who have taken part in our multidisciplinary surveys over the past 16 years.

It's very difficult to handle the cats when they are feral, but to choke and stretch an animal and stick a needle into their stomach is not very humane.

For Inuit, warming is likely to disrupt or even destroy their hunting and food-sharing culture as reduced sea ice causes the animals on which they depend to decline, become less accessible, and possibly become extinct.

For me, a journey is about everything. It's about fun, learning. We have all of these animals that have a story to tell. I'd like this zoo to be a short journey around the world.

For a wildlife biologist, it's a career highlight to work with an animal this rare.

Robert Adams

I'm not convinced that taking these animals that were from the wild and putting them into captivity for the rest of their lives is in their best interest.

I learned that one has to be really focused and devote oneself if you're going to get into the animal world. It's a full-time occupation. I didn't get into that. My mother immersed herself with animals. But she didn't forget people, either.

I like animals the best. I'm a big animal lover, mostly cats.

John Ridley

I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd.

James Herriot

I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must be that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

I love my animals and the environment; it is hard to go from farm life to city life in a few hours. But I would do it for Minnie. We will do whatever it takes for her.

I'm sure it must be a very moving experience to see all these beautiful, incredible animals swimming around. And then we go and put a fork in them in the cafeteria. It's just unnecessary.

In general, humans have long pictured themselves as separate from nature, but one of the lessons that we repeatedly learn when we study animal behavior is that animals are much more like us than we ever imagined, and we are much more like them than we had thought.

That sounds insane to me. Why animals go with wine, I don't know. The average consumer can't tell one wine from another, did you know that?