Animal Quote by Jonathan Balcombe

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of…

— Matt Ridley

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I…

— Sylvester Stallone

My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always…

— George Schaller

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

— Edith Widder

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

— Aoife O'Donovan

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

— Nikki Giovanni

I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into…

— Tig Notaro

My sister works with animals, so Ive learnt a lot about them through her and have developed a love of native birds. I think…

— Madeleine Madden

“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to…

— Kenn Kaufman

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way…

— Roger Tory Peterson

I love to watch birds and wildlife.

— Bill Bailey

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to…

— Harald zur Hausen