More - Scott Tucker Quotes

Sixty percent of all the monarchs caught and tagged at Milford Point were male, oddly enough. And they've tagged over 400 butterflies up to this point.

Scott Tucker

 

From the point forward, the camera has been in my hand up until today, ... From studying art photography at Southern University, I've gone from color, to black and white, and now gradually to digital.

Scott Tucker

 Art

My Dad used to bring home turtles he found on construction sites, ... I fell in love with turtles and snakes, and couldn't get enough of it.

Scott Tucker

 Home

I got my driver's license, got interested in the opposite sex, and I wanted to get as far away from nature as possible, ... So I moved out of state, and pretty much pronounced New England dead.

Scott Tucker

 Sex

I was found nothing! ... But the turning point for me was joining the Herpetologists League of Connecticut.

Scott Tucker

 Connecticut

They confided in me and brought me to places that most people weren't allowed to go, ... Many times the places I go to on the show I can't tell people where they are.

Scott Tucker

 People

People have been known to go down with pillowcases, capture snakes and sell them on EBay, ... But they trusted me that all I want to do is make people aware of the precious wildlife we have.

Scott Tucker

 People

I would spend days looking for these creatures, and of course I wanted to spend time with my wife Eva and my daughter Daphne, so I take them with me,

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She's like a sponge: she soaks up everything that is being said, ... We talk about nature all the time, and we read to her three to four books every night; books on amphibians, reptiles, but also other books on other topics are mixed in there.

Scott Tucker

 Nature

And she was absolutely right,

Scott Tucker