#crocodile

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#crocodiles #field #hence #predators #snakes

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#caught #crocodile #ever #first #i

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#along #boy #crocodiles #dad #enough

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#fear #i #kangaroo #koala #life

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

#anyone #crocodile #does #endangered #example

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#bus #children #come #crocodiles #elephants

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#equality

She gave me a puzzle in a box. She put the pieces together patiently, one by one, and completed the picture of me. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #love

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eat #feeds #him #hoping #last

How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better. ("Mysterious Maisie") ↗

— Wirt Gerrare

#creature #crocodile #emma-jane-worboise #fae #faerie