Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

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.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

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

Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.

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.