Peter Scott Quotations

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.

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

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 consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

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 case.

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 left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

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 they were.

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 make them realise that this was a very serious business.

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Our fish hits the table within two minutes of being cooked, the chips within one minute.

Look, from a professional soldier's point of view, we were very eager to get there and to do the job that we were trained for.

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

It has a very strong corporate sector, a very sensible government and Brazil is a place that is going to do extremely well over the medium term after this rough patch is out of the way.

We are responding to feedback about our schemes from people who said they would like to have a text message service to alert them to any changes to the traffic management and lane closures so that they could plan their journeys better.

What parents usually hear are the random snorts and sniffles of air passing through mucus and secretions in the nose and throat.

We cannot expect forever staff to show up on the airplane and be given a heavily subsidized house,

Brazil has in many ways a very robust economy,

It was very, very cold and there were a number of injuries, self-inflicted injuries, because people just couldn't take the cold.

Everybody, I would say, if you could love anybody he was loved by everybody because he had such concern for his soldiers and he was so able in getting them to do what he wanted them to do, and they did it instinctively and because his orders were so clear and concise, and I think that - I hope - that rubbed off onto me when I was CO.

By the middle of the next century, China will be a great capitalist economy, ... I don't think anything can happen in the next few weeks or months to change that.

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea...

You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).

We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.

Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.

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.