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

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.

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 all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all!

The soul keeps on wandering!

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.