Peter Scott Quotes


TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.


Citations

Scott, Peter. Observations of Wildlife. Phaidon Press, 1980.

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Peter Scott
Peter Scott
  • Born: September 14, 1909
  • Died: August 29, 1989
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Ornithologist, Conservationist, Aviculturist, Painter, Naval Officer, Broadcaster

Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC & Bar, FRS, FZS was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding.