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"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."

"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."

"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."

"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger."

"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."

"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."

"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."

"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."

"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
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"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."


"Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know."


"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."


"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."


"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."


"I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out."


"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."


"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."


"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
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