Awareness Quote by Roger Tory Peterson

“Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of species before…

— Mark Carwardine

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

— Olivier Messiaen

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

— Roger Tory Peterson

“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they…

— David Attenborough

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

— Jim Knight

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time…

— Roger Tory Peterson