Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frogs foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox. – Miguel de Cervantes
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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