Robert Pyle Quotes

• You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.

  Robert Pyle

  Purpose, Facts, Defeat

  Robert Michael Pyle, Roger Tory Peterson Institute (1992). “Handbook for Butterfly Watchers”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?

  Robert Pyle

  Children, Wrens, Extinction

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• Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

  Robert Pyle

  Fall, Winter, Wind

  Robert Michael Pyle (2007). “Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

  Robert Pyle

  Weed, Nature, Mistake

  Robert Michael Pyle (1986). “Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land”, Scribner

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