American - Environmentalist | August 28, 1908 - July 28, 1996
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
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Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
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I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
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