Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.
I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
People don't come to see the tigers; they come to see me.
I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
We literally live right in the middle of the zoo, and it means that every day is a new experience and so much fun.
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.
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.
I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
I've always been an animal lover and have no human children, so my heart has been with helping animals.
My work for, and with, animals is just so rewarding. It's the best part of my life. It really is.
I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.
For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.
I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.
I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.
I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
