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I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance ... but most of all I want a future for our children.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
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.
All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.
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.
My job, my mission, the reason I've been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin' with me. Yeah, let's get 'em!
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.
If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.
Scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.
When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
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.
I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.
See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.
I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.
The 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.
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
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.
What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.
And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
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.
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player.
I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
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.
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.