Peter Scott Quotes

United Kingdom, Artist
September 14, 1909 – August, 29, 1989.

Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC & Bar, FRS, FZS (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. He was the only child of Robert Falcon Scott.

Also known as Ornithologist, Painter, Broadcaster

They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

Peter Scott
- Famous
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.

Peter Scott
- Men
- Women
- Home

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.

Peter Scott
- Home
- America
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.

Peter Scott
- American
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.

Peter Scott
- High
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.

Peter Scott
- Up
- Business
- Serious
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.

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

Peter Scott
- War