37 Quotes by Eric Goode

I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife.

The real takeaway should be to give your money to conservation programs around the world that are really working hard to save tigers in their range countries and not give your money to sanctuaries, which are really, effectively just caging tigers and cats.

When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.

My focus personally has been to be a conservationist, which is to save species, protect wild lands, sometimes bring animals into assurance colonies in the wild - like California Condors for example - and put them back in the wild. It's very different from animal rights.

At the end of the day, the best sanctuaries are places like the Performing Animal Welfare Society in Northern California, where he really provides his tigers large spaces. And there are people in the private sector that do a really good job with animals.

If you keep more 230 tigers, it's like having 230 children, you don't really love them, you're just collecting them.

I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.

The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.

People fantasize about working with animals, and then they start doing it, and then they start to believe that they're indispensable and the animal loves them just as much they love the animal.