Tom Cochrane Quotes

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Endangered species are our friends.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

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

Tell the president that the buffalo is my old friend, and it would make my heart glad to see a heard once more roaming around.

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.