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Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996)
A tribute to the author of the Peterson Field Guide
"What if there had been no Roger Tory Peterson?" The issue was raised not long ago by S.Dillon Ripley, secretary emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, in the foreword to a handsome book celebrating Peterson's art and photography.
Roger tory peterson obituary salina
"This question," Ripley wrote, "brings to mind imponderables such as whether we would all still be struggling to identify birds using unwieldy tomes, or whether birds would have become the best-known animals in the world.
Peterson entered a world in which identification and study of birds was the exclusive realm of the specialist with a shotgun, and he transformed us into a world of watchers."
He transformed us into a world of watchers.
I can't conceive of a more fitting epitaph to the life of an extraordinary man, who died in his Connecticut home on July 28, a few weeks short of his eighty-eighth birthday.
Because of Peterson, we became watchers not just of birds,