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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
William Henry Hudson
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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
William Henry Hudson
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
William Henry Hudson
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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.
William Henry Hudson
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Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
William Henry Hudson
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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Ernst Mayr
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Every man praises his own wares.
John Ray
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
Theodore Roosevelt
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
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Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and ideas, and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
William Vogt
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A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.
Ernst Mayr
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
William Bartram
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By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
Ernst Haeckel
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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
Carl Linnaeus
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus
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Want More Advice Like This?
Theodore Roosevelt
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt
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. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
John James Audubon
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We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
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