Chip Taylor Quotations

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.

We're still in the infancy, but it is taking off, and I think so far we have probably 280 way stations registered and certified. I suspect by this time next year it is going to be 2,000. It's been a good response so far.

To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.

I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a buzz through me that morning that was so powerful. I knew I had done something that meant something, because of that feeling. It wasn't a question of whether other people liked it ... I loved it. To me, it had to be one of the most important love stories of all time.

What we did was create a program last April that acknowledges the fact we are in deep trouble in the United States through habitat loss. With massive habitat loss, we've got to do something.

When I got started with this, it appeared that the whole migration was just chaos pushed by weather, totally unpredictable. It turns out you can predict to within two or three days where they are going to be, and they make this migration on the basis of some celestial change.

Monarchs do this quite a bit but we don't how much they do it.

I grew up in South Carolina. I have been taught in the ways of southern hospitality. Residents that enter my business will always be treated with outstanding manners and cleanliness. I take each customer and tattoo seriously -- this is how I support my family.

If we lose the whole migration, we lose one of the nation's most magnificent phenomenon.

We can get our hands dirty, and we can have fun.

I think right now it's a lot of hype about nothing. I don't expect much to happen this year.

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

This year is better than it's been in the last three years,

We didn't know how to interpret it at the time, ... it turns out that was a good sign, and the number of butterflies that made it to the far north in June was quite good. There were very favorable conditions there.

I've been taking the dog out in morning and passing milkweed, and I've been finding an enormous number of caterpillars and partially defoliated milkweed plants.

These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity and marvelous scientific aspect.

A budget is what a budget is; you've got to make it fit,

It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.

The number of butterflies has been just terrific.

It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.

They are interested in conservation and the issues involved in saving monarch habitats in both the United States and Mexico.

Nothing like this has been done. It's really a marvelous adventure and one that very few people would even think about as a possibility because it is risky.

In 2004, there was not a good recovery because of the low spring population, the summer being extremely cold, and the loss of habitat in the upper Midwest.

The last two years, all three games that we've won here have either been buzzer beaters or overtime games. It's getting to the point I can't take a lot more of them. But as long as we keep coming out on this end of it, I guess I'll live with it.