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.

Roger Tory Peterson
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More Quotes By Roger Tory Peterson
  1. I'm a wanderess I'm a one night stand Don't belong to no city Don't belong to no man( Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

  2. The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  3. It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  4. I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the...

  5. In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in...

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