Roger Tory Peterson
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"Roger Tory Peterson" was an American natural history/naturalist, ornithology/ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement.

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My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.

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.

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

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