It’s fair to say many animals have richer social lives and a richer palette of strategic abilities than we give them credit for.  We should get better acquainted with the animals we share the world with. If only because they are so beautiful and so interesting.”

Holly Dunsworth

 

“Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them.” 
Frans de Waal

 

"The human species is unique but so is every other species. We differ from the rest no more, it seems, than do other species from each other. Non-human animals have routinely amazing facilities for accomplishing things by acting on information they receive from their environments. They are creatures of instinct, but so are we. As Joseph Wood Krutch asked, “who is the more thoroughly acquainted with the world in which he lives?”[3]Adaptation to one’s world is a cognitive process. If we wonder which species is the smartest, the best answer is, most likely: they all are."

John Zerzan - Animal Dreams

 

“After spending so much time with them, you realize how smart they are.”

Thomas Mangelsen - Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek

 

 

"Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?"  "Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior to our genetics, to our physiology..."

E. O. Wilson

 

"Science as a list of facts can be exciting for a little while.  But Science as a way of asking better questions and getting better answers to them, is much more useful and much more interesting."

Dan Levitis - UW-Madison

 

 

“I became totally absorbed into this forest existence. It was an unparalleled period when aloneness was a way of life; a perfect opportunity, it might seem, for meditating on the meaning of existence and my role in it all. .... For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can even describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected. The beauty was always there, but moments of true awareness were rare. They would come, unannounced; perhaps when I was watching the pale flush preceding dawn; or looking up through the rustling leaves of some giant forest tree into the greens and browns and the black shadows and the occasionally ensured bright fleck of blue sky; or when I stood, as darkness fell, with one hand on the still warm trunk of a tree and looked at the sparkling of an early moon on the never still, softly sighing water of Lake Tanganyika.” 
Jane Goodall

 

 

"It is not light that we need, but fire;

it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind,

and the earthquake!.

Frederick Douglass

 

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" 

John Muir

 

“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.” 
Steve Irwin

 

 

"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."

David Attenborough
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Inspiration comes from the natural world and by learning from some of the best wildlife biologists, ecologists and photographers in the world including 
Daisy Gilardini, Chad Routhier, Pierre Pellegrini, MICHAEL AW,MARTIN BAILEY, KAREN LUNNEY, JON CORNFORTH, JESS FINDLAY, CONNOR STEFANISON, STEFANO UNTERTHINER, FRANS LANTING BBC, Behrouz Afagh, Christine Langan. 
BBC Films have inspired me. as have veteran Joe Oppenheimer, david attenborough, United Kingdom, oxford, edinburgh, .  I love research, ants, vegan food, irish beer the uk, national geographic. polar bears, early years, giant eggs, and mammals,