Peter Scott
Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott CH CBE DSC* FRS FZSwas a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth14 September 1909
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By the middle of the next century, China will be a great capitalist economy, ... I don't think anything can happen in the next few weeks or months to change that.
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I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
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If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea...
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You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.
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Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.
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The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.
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Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).
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We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
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Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
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But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
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I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
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TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
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Everybody, I would say, if you could love anybody he was loved by everybody because he had such concern for his soldiers and he was so able in getting them to do what he wanted them to do, and they did it instinctively and because his orders were so clear and concise, and I think that - I hope - that rubbed off onto me when I was CO.