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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"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'm a little different from all those conservation types."
"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."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"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."
"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling."
"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."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us."
"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."
"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 pest."
"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."
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