10 Quotes by Roger Payne

Whales are humanity's canary in the coal mine, ... As ocean pollution levels increase, marine mammals like whales will be among the first to go.

Those were the old antiquated British forms, and they wanted a more clean American form, ... It really hadn't gotten its sea legs yet because this had never been done anywhere else in the world.

Pretty much as long as the official authorities at the state or local level agree or, let's say now, don't disagree, it automatically happens,

The most important thing to us is what the local folks want to use.

As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.

It's a big deal to change a name.

It's rare that we do change a name.

The board members will now weigh all of this and decide. But I can tell you that since the state and the Forest Service and the counties have agreed, I would be very surprised if they were not approved.

The agreement we've got, they're going to pay it back,