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