peterson Quotes

“I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.”

“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.”

“Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.”

“It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.”

“Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.”