“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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Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
