"My father said you can't make a living……" — Roger Tory Peterson
"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."
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Roger Tory Peterson
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22 Quotes by Roger Tory Peterson
Roger Tory Peterson has 22 quotes on this site.
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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little…
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all --…
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came…
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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,…
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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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More Aberrant Quotes
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem…
— Thorstein Veblen
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer,…
— May Sarton
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I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand…
— William Beck
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they…
— Jacque Fresco
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There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
— Chris Stringer
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Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them,…
— Desmond Morris
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank,…
— Ernst Mayr
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or…
— William Eckhardt
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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of…
— Thomas Hardy
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship…
— Brennan Manning
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Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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