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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."

"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."

"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."

"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."

"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."

"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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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."


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


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


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


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