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" You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal. "

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" I've always told Bindi, 'If anything ever happened to me, I will always watch over you from Heaven.' But she always understood because, living at a zoo, animals die; she's seen death. She knows what death is. "

" I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.' "

" Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very - I don't know if 'eerie' is the word, but remarkable, certainly. "

" I am someone who tunes into more ethical journalism, and I'm not someone who dwells a lot on the negative, so I think I'd rather focus on the positive and forge ahead. "

" Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is. "

" When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately. "

" None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow. "

" Steve was such an example as one man doing what he could to change the world. "

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" Steve was such an immense person in so many ways. I never realized how much I depended on him until he was gone. "

" I live in Australia Zoo. I have a very private home. We've got three bedrooms, one bathroom... The carpets are rose-coloured, which grossed Steve out, but I love it. He let me do everything the way I wanted. The house is just warm and cozy and small. "

" She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish. "

" Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss. "

" Steve said to me how excited he was when Bindi was born. He said, 'Do you think we could have a boy?' And then Robert was born, and they're perfect. They're easy kids. They're wonderful to me; they're such a help. "

" My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss. "

" I have friends who have lost husbands and have gone off and tried different things. Nothing wrong with that. "

" No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging. "

" You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal. "

" I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I've got great kids, I've got a very full life, and while I'm lonely for Steve, I'm not a lonely person. "

" Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it. "

" I'm real adamant that, when we have family time scheduled, that we stick to it. "

" When we lost Steve, the grief was understandable, but I wasn't prepared for how scary everything became - that fear factor of 'Now I'm doing this on my own.' "

" I have two beautiful children. And they really are my strength. "

" Crocodiles are an apex predator and crucial to the ecosystem, keeping waterways and wetlands healthy. Crocodiles eradicate the weak, sick, and injured wildlife, leaving only the healthy to prosper. "

" When you take those vows and say, 'We'll be together as long as we both shall live,' I really don't think I would've married if I hadn't met Steve. And he's very special to me and continues to be. "

" Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important. "

" For me, it was two years before I fed a big croc when I came to Australia. "

" I've grown up with an active outdoor lifestyle. Before I lived in Australia, I ran a construction company in Oregon, U.S.A. I also owned horses and would spend several weeks a year exploring Oregon's beautiful wilderness areas on horseback. "

" When we lost Steve, it was a real crossroads of deciding if you're just going to curl up in the corner or try to do something even bigger and better. "

" Living with Steve was like standing in a cyclone. Then we lost him. It was like the wind stopped. "

" It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth! "