Wonderful. Tell me about it. Wonderful. I was always very inquisitive about things, and particularly natural things. I’d get up in the morning and I’d notice the sun, the moon at night, I’d notice the cloud formations, I listened to bird songs when I got up in the morning. In… Read More
Aside from bringing water in the house, what was your childhood like in Tennessee?… Read More
Tennessee. I left New Jersey when I was very young, went back home with family. My mother was from Tennessee, my father too. Read More
Was this in Tennessee or New Jersey?… Read More
That’s what you call torture. Read More
Was this Tennessee?… Read More
I was dragging my knuckles on the ground. Read More
My name is Pat Quinn or actually Walter C. Quinn. But Pat’s my handle. I was born in New Jersey. My family lived in Madisonville, Tennessee in the hills. I was raised there in the hills with a family, my family. Born in 1936, and my mother was there when… Read More
I would rather measure other people in what they really positively contributed rather than what mistakes they made. And I’d like to be treated in the same fashion. Thank you, Steve Wiley. You’re welcome. Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
I think anybody wants to be remembered. (chuckles) An old adage that I can remember I learned in college. I don’t know why I learned this in college. It was, “Through life’s burning embers, these are my regrets. When I was right, no one remembers. When I was wrong, no… Read More
I don’t know. But it’s just challenges that I guess I feel like I’m tired. I don’t wanna mess with them anymore. I wanna take it easy now. Read More
Who knows where all that’s going to end?… Read More
Why would it make you uncomfortable?… Read More
‘Cause I’m getting up there in years and it’s seems like things are happening too fast. Decisions are being made and activities are taking place that I’m not sure that are being totally thought through but I’m not so sure that they aren’t. I just don’t know. It’s a little… Read More
I keep in touch with a lot of them very regularly, those of my generation. So, it was good. But I think it’s changing. I think it’s evolving. It’s probably evolving at a rate that today would make me very uncomfortable. Read More
It’s a good profession. It’s a good profession. It’s a good way of life. It’s something when you look back on it, you would like to think you made a difference. There are opportunities there to make difference. It’s a wholesome thing. It’s not particularly cutthroat. It’s not like having… Read More
I think the profession was very comfortable. It had some wonderful travel perks to it. I assume that the young curators and stuff today are still able to visit parts of the world and see nature first hand. So, when somebody asked me, “Well, what was the zoo business like?”… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you devoted so many years of your life too?… Read More
If I asked you, what would be one of your proudest accomplishments?… Read More