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.

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.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

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

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

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

The more you look, the more you will see.

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

Water flows uphill towards money.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.