Roger Tory Peterson
Roger Tory Peterson
Roger Tory Petersonwas an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth28 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
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bird paper ecological
Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
butterfly bird may
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
america bird knows
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
sky bird garbage
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
reality expression bird
Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.
father bird littles
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.
bridges bird stuff
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.
ivory bird tolerance
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.
bird study awareness
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.
bird environmental paper
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.
nature birds-wings envy
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
compassion bird environmental
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
bird matter incomplete
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.
health survival might
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.