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Roger Tory Peterson has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations…
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Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
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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…
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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
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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…
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Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
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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,…
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The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us…
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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…
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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
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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.
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had…
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it…
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
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I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
— Kristen Bell
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
— Dolly Parton
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but…
— Unknown Author
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
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