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.

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.

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

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

Trust me, I write fiction.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

I want to become a very good writer.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.