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Steve Irwin
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Quotes by Steve Irwin
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.
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If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.
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There’s a lot of research behind the scenes that you don’t get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
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Yeah, I think it’s an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
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So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I’ve been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it’s gone beyond that.
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I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it’s something that I can’t help.
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No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you’re confronted with violence.
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See, I’ve always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He’s a legend – like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the ’60s through the ’70s was just phenomenal.
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