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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
John Ray
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
William Vogt
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An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.
William Henry Hudson
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
John Ray
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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
Jared Diamond
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Obedience of the law is demanded not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Jared Diamond
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
Carl Linnaeus
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Man is not above nature, but in nature.
Ernst Haeckel
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New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
Ernst Mayr
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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
Roger Tory Peterson
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