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Why We Serve

Dee Arntz
Audubon is national yet local – 100 years old yet new each year with new members and new hope.

For me Audubon links my love of the outdoors, especially our precious wetlands, with living creatures. Birds are bright and beautiful; they give us hope and inspiration. Birds are tough yet fragile, and they need our support.

Here in Washington, Audubon-Washington coordinates the efforts of 26 chapters and joins us to national and regional issues. For me, a Mariner baseball fan, Audubon covers all the bases. It has been exceedingly rewarding to be an Audubon volunteer for the past 20 years.

Helen Engle
One of Audubon’s most important values is its wonderful way of involving families in the exploration and appreciation of nature – helping instill a life-long love of the natural world.

The “Audubon Way” succeeds because it motivates a wide diversity of people to be comfortable activists in their own communities without confrontation, divisiveness, and rancor.

For so many people Audubon has led the way to nature – seeking inspiration, harmony, and peace in nature’s special places; enjoying the web of landscape and living things – the reverence for life.

Tom Grismer
Audubon invites us to be personally involved in the natural world. Like the birds that are our focus, Audubon calls our attention to nature's beauty and complexity. Audubon is optimistic about people. It assumes that the more we experience and pay attention to the natural world, the more we will care about it and value it.

Like the bird's song, Audubon's message is something everyone, everywhere can hear and appreciate. Audubon leads the way among environmental organizations in its deliberate and determined efforts to 'share its song' with all segments of our population, so that people in all walks of life will want to share in the rewarding task of taking care of our world.

Charlie Kahle
Audubon is the single organization that enriches our thirst for learning and empowers individuals to act on our innate interest in conservation.

Chuck Lennox
Audubon is a family of relationships; connections between people, communities, and the environment. Audubon encourages us to make the connection:

1. Between bird watching and conservation – "The birds we watch depend on healthy habitat so help protect bird habitat.”
2. Between conservation and human health – "The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we live on are the foundation of our well-being."
3. Between generations – "I want my legacy to be wild places for my children and grandchildren to enjoy."

The world would be a different place if Audubon were not here.

Annalee Luhman
Watching birds makes every day a treasure hunt every day – armed with anticipation and excitement about the possibilities ahead. Birds are about beauty and grace – about unbelievable colors and magical sounds. Audubon helps assure that our world will forever remain rich with these incredible creatures.

Jean MacGregor
Why Audubon? Birds! Since early childhood, birds have given me endless hours of discovery, delight, and inspiration. Being active in Audubon is my way of giving back. I want others to have birds in their lives for generations to come.

I value Audubon's comprehensiveness. It operates on local, state, and national levels, making it an authoritative and powerful vehicle for wildlife protection.

Audubon helps both children and adults connect with the natural world around them, and through that connection comes learning, caring, and stewardship.

John Narver
I'm committed to Audubon because it is a serious, science-based organization focused at the grassroots level on nature education and public policy.

Denise Stiffarm
I admire and respect Audubon's commitment to bringing environmental education opportunities directly to ethnically and economically diverse neighborhoods.

Maggie Walker
Audubon's value lies in its broad base and commitment to diversify and enlarge the corps of people who have a deep love of nature. These people in turn are moved to preserve our natural world. The environmental movement is too white, old, and male to be a force in the coming era - but Audubon is one of the only organizations to confront this issue on a national level.

Ken Wieresma
Audubon’s biggest value? The people. Chapter volunteers, Stewards, staff – a team of committed folks working to protect and retain the birds which share our Earth.

10/19/04