Roger Tory Peterson Quotes - Famously Quoted

Roger Tory Peterson

Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
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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.
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Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
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