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Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
Roger Tory Peterson / Artist
Bird
Ecological
Paper
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The more you look, the more you will see.
Roger Tory Peterson / Artist
Nature
Looks
Zen Motorcycle Maintenance
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Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.
Roger Tory Peterson / Artist
Bird
Expression
Reality
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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
Roger Tory Peterson / Artist
Conservation
Environment
Ideals
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Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
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Games
Important
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Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
Roger Tory Peterson / Artist
Health
Science
Butterfly
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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 / Artist
Environmental
Bird
Compassion
Environment
Trouble
Birds
Soon
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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 / Artist
Bird
Garbage
Sky
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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 / Artist
America
Bird
Knows
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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 / Artist
Bird
North America
Africa
Calls
Practically
North
Recognize
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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 / Artist
Life
Environmental
Science
Doom
Doom And Gloom
Gloom
Natural
Natural World
Reverence
Beginning
Gaining
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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 / Artist
Nature
Birds Wings
Envy
Mobility
People
Wings
Nature Free People
Free
Birds
Fly
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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 / Artist
Sports
Doors
Hunting
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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 / Artist
Bird
Ivory
Tolerance
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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 / Artist
Health
Science
Water
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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 / Artist
Bird
Incomplete
Matter
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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 / Artist
Rights
Voice
World
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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 / Artist
Nature
Environmental
Binoculars
Bird
Bridges
Bridge
Consider
Shoot
Observe
Primary
Shotgun
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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.
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Angel
Butterfly
Interesting
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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 / Artist
Awareness
Bird
Study
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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 / Artist
Nature
Animal
Wild Places
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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 / Artist
Bankers
Bird
Father
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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 / Artist
Change
Science
Bird
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The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.
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Science
Hard Work
Philosophy
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