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.

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.

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.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.