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Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement.

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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.

Animal, Exotic, Found, Mountain, Nature, Wild Places

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.

Father, Bird, Bankers, Living, Said, Eventually

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.

Bird, Incomplete, Intolerable, Matter, Perhaps, Truth

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.

Health, Science, Water, Take, Survival, Unable

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Birds Wings, Envy, Fly, Mobility, Nature, People

The more you look, the more you will see.

Look, Looks, Nature, See, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Bird, Compassion, Environment, Environmental, Indicators, Know

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

Health, Butterfly, Science, Environment, Birds

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.

Philosophy, Hard Work, Science, Environment, Primary, Creating

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Reality, Expression, Bird, Birds, Perhaps

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.

Awareness, Bird, Change, Ecological, Populations, Science

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.

Awareness, Bird, Birds, Deserving, Study

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Life, Science, Doom And Gloom, Reverence, Beginning

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.

Care, Duty, Rights, Voice, World

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.

Bridges, Bird, Environmental, Primary, Bridge, Binoculars

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