Terri Irwin

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

“When Bindi and Robert have grown, there will probably be another life for me, and I can't anticipate exactly what that will be, but it will involve continuing Steve's work, conservation, being there for my kids, Australia Zoo.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Never walk past a problem with an animal - fix it.”

“After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling.”

“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.”

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

“If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.”

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

“Steve worked tirelessly to promote conservation, wildlife, and the environment, and his work enabled the plight of endangered species to reach a whole new audience.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children.”

“For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our lives to.”

“We've got that family opportunity of always filming together, so we can look back on good times anytime we want.”