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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
"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."
"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."
"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'm a little different from all those conservation types."
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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
"That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else."
"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."
"Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!"
"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."
"When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me."
"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."
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