Collected Meditations
Showing 37 quotesThe only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.— Steve Irwin
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.— Steve Irwin
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.— Steve Irwin
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.— Steve Irwin
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.— Steve Irwin
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Dad
No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.— Steve Irwin
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!— Steve Irwin
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.— Steve Irwin
I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.— Steve Irwin
I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.— Steve Irwin
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.— Steve Irwin
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.— Steve Irwin
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.— Steve Irwin
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Humor
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.— Steve Irwin
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.— Steve Irwin
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.— Steve Irwin
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.— Steve Irwin
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Age