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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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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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My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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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. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many
perhaps all
of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds. -- 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. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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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. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Birds are an ecological litmus paper. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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The more you look, the more you will see. -- Roger Tory Peterson
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Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera ... -- Roger Tory Peterson
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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. -- Roger Tory Peterson