162 Quotes About Wildlife

  • Author C. Robert Cargill
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    Humans, ironically, had a strange fascination with preserving the wildlife of their day. While they were busy changing the very atmosphere and seas, cutting and burning away swaths of forest and jungle to build cities and farms, they somehow felt better about all their damage by making sure species on the cusp of extinction still had a place in the world—even if they were really just a dead clade walking.

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  • Author Craig Childs
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    A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die.

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  • Author Anne M Chappel
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    There are many ways to die in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The vulture observed them all. The manner of life's ending did not concern her, or whether the dying creature was animals or human, black or white. Immaterial. Death comes. The vulture comes.

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  • Author Patricia C. Wrede
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    He's a lot bigger now," William commented as he stepped forward to study the beast. "Big and mean, one of the soldiers muttered."He's not mean," I said firmly. "He's half wild. There's a difference.

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  • Author Isabella Tree
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    Deep, rich orange and speckled with black, every now and again a flick of their wings flashed an underside of green and mother-of-pearl - the silver wash that gives the fritillaries their name. The female flies straight and level, the slow semaphore of her wing-beats and the scent from the tip of her abdomen exuding allure. The male swoops in tight loops under and up and in front of her, stalling so she can pass beneath him through a shower of intoxicating scent-scales shed from his forewings.

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