List of Roger Tory Peterson Quotes

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.

Butterflies May Be Better Indicators Of The Health Of Our Environment Than Birds.

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.

I Can Recognize The Calls Of Practically Every Bird In North America. There Are Some In Africa I Don't Know, Though

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.

Birds Are An Ecological Litmus Paper.

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.

Conservation Is Not Just An Ideal That We Read About; It Works.

Birding, After All, Is Just A Game. Going Beyond That Is What Is Important.

Not All Is Doom And Gloom. We Are Beginning To Understand The Natural World And Are Gaining A Reverence For Life - All Life.

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.

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.