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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.
Peter Scott
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There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind
Theodore Roosevelt
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Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
William Henry Hudson
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To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
Ernst Mayr
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A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
Theodore Roosevelt
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
Jared Diamond
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
Jared Diamond
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When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
Georges Cuvier
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Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.
Lorenz Oken
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And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - ' Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!
Edward Lear
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
John James Audubon
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A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.
Theodore Roosevelt
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That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.
Pentti Linkola
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For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty let us live in the harness, striving mightily let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Conrad Gessner
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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius
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