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8 quotes by Peter Scott

Sir Peter Markham Scott CH CBE DSC* FRS FZS (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman. Scott was knighted in 1973 for his contribution to the conservation of wild animals. He had been a founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (November 1946), and was an influence on international conservation. He received...
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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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You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the... →

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I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

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They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

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Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our... →

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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... →

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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... →

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The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to... →

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