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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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It is better to be faithful than famous.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen but birds are not numerous in desart forests they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.
William Bartram
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.
John Gould
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The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
John James Audubon
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There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.
John James Audubon
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More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
David Douglas
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The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
Junius
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
Jared Diamond
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
Carl Linnaeus
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A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
David Douglas
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Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.
John Gould
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