Herons Quote by Peter P. Marra

“They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Roger Tory Peterson

Wildlife crime goes well beyond just a threat to endangered species but also has impacts on our society, economy and security. It undermines efforts…

— David Lidington

“And that is just the list of federal criminal statutes; the states have an even greater number of crimes on the books.”

— James Duane

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

— Rick Riordan

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your…

— Neil Leckman

“understand that the greatest danger to wildlife was not poaching but habitat destruction—the same thing that ultimately threatened humans.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Nearly never kills a bird”

— Harper Lee

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical”

— Donna Tartt

“The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts…

— Nadeem Aslam

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

— William Shakespeare