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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.