“I think America has lost more bird species
in the last 100 years than any other country
that we know about.” ...... E.O. Wilson

“What if there be no more goose music?”
...... Aldo Leopold

“In the wilderness is the preservation of the world.” ….. Henry David Thoreau

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” ….. Native American Proverb

“We do not inherit the land from our ancestors;
we borrow it from our children.”
….. Native American Proverb

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
….. John Muir

“Weight for weight, birds eat more food, consume more oxygen, move more rapidly, and generate more heat than any other vertebrates.”
...... Carl Welty, 1982

“I think that, if required, on pain of death, to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird’s egg.”    
...... T. W. Higginson

“Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature. .… On top of everything else is the intellectual challenge of identifying birds, which offers rewards at every level and draws on so many disciplines.”
...... David Sibley

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of
wonder, he needs the companionship of at
least one adult who can share it, rediscovering
with him the joy, excitement, and mystery
of the word we live in.”
...... Rachel Carson