I'm Absolutely Strict About It. When I

Birds Are The Most Popular Group In The Animal Kingdom. We Feed Them And Tame Them And Think We Know Them. And Yet They Inhabit A World Which Is Really Rather Mysterious.

The Climate, The Economic Situation, Rising Birth Rates; None Of These Things Give Me A Lot Of Hope Or Reason To Be Optimistic.

I Mean, It Is An Extraordinary Thing That A Large Proportion Of Your Country And My Country, Of The Citizens, Never See A Wild Creature From Dawn 'til Dusk, Unless It's A Pigeon, Which Isn't Really Wild, Which Might Come And Settle Near Them.

I'm Not A Propagandist, I'm Not A Polemicist; My Primary Interest Is Just Looking At And Trying To Understand How Animals Work.

I Find It Far More Awesome, Wonderful, That Creation; Our Appearance In The World; Should Be The Culmination, Or At Least One Of The Latest Products Of 3,000 Million Years Of Organic Evolution, Than A Kind Of Country Trick, Taking A Rib Out Of A Man's Side In A Trance.