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I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

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

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.