Ospreys Quotes

• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Paso mucho tiempo escuchando a las águilas pescadoras. Las veo pasar por su ciclo vital. Pasan el invierno en Sudamérica. La madre y el padre águila pescadora permanecen juntos. Es una relación monógama. Y cada verano crían una nueva prole. Regresan al nido a mediados de abril. Toman vacaciones separadas en el invierno - la madre y el padre.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Mother, Children

  Entrevista con Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. 16 de noviembre de 2000.

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• Quería que mis hijos tuvieran el mismo contacto con el agua que yo tuve. Mis mejores recuerdos de Northeast Harbor son cuando iba con mi padre en un pequeño ballenero en busca de águilas pescadoras.

  Parker Stevenson

  Niños, Recuerdos, Papá

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• One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Writing, Bird

  Entrevista con Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. 16 de noviembre de 2000.

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• [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

  Carl Safina

  Spring, Reading, Science

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