34 Quotes by Roger Tory Peterson

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

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

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.