18 Quotes by Bruce Beehler

We stood in awe as the male romped about in the saplings around our entrance trail, flicking his wings and white flank plumes, and whistling his sweet two-note song for the female-plumaged bird. I was too spellbound to go get my camera.

It has a fairyland quality. It's a spectacularly beautiful Garden of Eden.

Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two long-beaked echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.

We just scratched the surface. Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery.

Everyone was so transfixed. You are seeing a bird that no Western scientist has ever seen. I was shouting. This trip was a once-in-a-lifetime series of shouting experiences.

Any expedition visiting in the dry season would probably discover many more butterflies. I suspect there are some areas like this in Africa, and am sure that there are similar places in South America.

This is one of the last new places to go. This mountain range generates its own species, a little bit like the Galapagos.

This mountain range is big enough and complex enough to actually be a generator of new species. It's actually producing new diversity.

There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.