"Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes."

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Source : Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Roger Tory Peterson

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“Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.”
“It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and in the process, somewhere along the way hopefully you attract the best version someone else has to offer. The more you challenge yourself, the higher your expectations become for your life and the people you want to have in it.”
“You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.”
“Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.”
“The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the ledge, trying to tread water, trying to keep ahead of the deadlines or the business of the city.”

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“Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify.”
“It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. Heâ€™d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart heâ€™d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.”
“Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.”

Source : "Knowing God". Book by James Packer, 1973.

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