Mike Leach Quotes

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

I love zoo sanctuaries.

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

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

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

I grew up near London Zoo, with which I was obsessed. I would lie in bed at night, thinking about the lions and tigers and wolves that were prowling only a few miles away.

She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.