Peter Scott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The conservationistÂ¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.
-- Peter Scott

#Motivational #Important #Earth
TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
-- Peter Scott

#Falling In Love #Reality #People
The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.
-- Peter Scott

#Motivational #Important #Tasks
We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
-- Peter Scott

#Deals #Ifs
You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.
-- Peter Scott

#Bed #Made #Bounce
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
-- Peter Scott

#Korea #Australia #Training
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
-- Peter Scott

#Eagles #Shooting #Settling
Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).
-- Peter Scott

#Husband #Dirty #Years
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
-- Peter Scott

#Civilization #Zippers #Matter
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
-- Peter Scott

#Knowing #Doing Me #Way
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

#Husband #Thinking #Giving

You may also like:

Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Barbara Pym
Novelist
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
Christopher Parsons
Film maker
David Attenborough
Broadcaster
Edmund Hillary
Mountaineer
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Novelist
Ernest Shackleton
Explorer
Fridtjof Nansen
Explorer
James Cook
Explorer
Jane Austen
Novelist
Julian Huxley
Film director
Kingsley Amis
Novelist
Margaret Drabble
Novelist
Martin Amis
Novelist
Mary Wesley
Novelist
Paul Gallico
Novelist
Penelope Wilton
Film actress
Robert Aickman
Writer
Robert Falcon Scott
Explorer