Which three quotations can show the significance of the ducks in central park?

Holden, in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, is very concerned about defending the lives and interests of the innocent. In this case, Holden feels responsible for the ducks during the winter. In chapter 12, Holden asks his cab driver, Horowitz, about the ducks and where they go when the lake is frozen over. Horowitz is confused at such a question and doesn't know how to answer the boy. The ducks' significance to Holden can be seen through the discussion he has with the cab driver in the following:

"The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I mean does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves—go south or something?" (81-82).

Such a seemingly random question takes the cab driver aback, but it shows that Holden has thought of the innocent little birds before. Based on Holden's distrust for authority figures, he probably also wonders if the city, or any other adults, does anything to help innocent creatures like this each year. In like manner, Holden probably identifies with the ducks and feels as helpless in his own life as he thinks the ducks are in theirs. But then the cab driver brings up the fish in the lake and confuses the conversation further. So, Holden asks the following:

"All right. What do they do, the fish and all, when that whole little lake's a solid block of ice, people skating on it and all?" (82).

Now Holden is concerned about the fish who are trapped in the ice, which is more complicated than the ducks' situation. Horowitz gets frustrated, and the conversation gets more heated. Finally, Horowitz says something that seems to calm Holden down a little bit:

"If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya? (83).

Holden doesn't want to continue the conversation, though, because he says, "I was afraid he was going to crack the damn taxi up or something" (83). What Horowitz says suggests that Holden needs to have faith in Mother Nature and not worry about things that he doesn't have control over. Holden understands the theory, but it doesn't seem to help him remedy his concern. Because of the many traumatic experiences that Holden has had in his life, from his brother Allie's death to the suicide of a classmate, he worries about the lives of the innocent when left unchecked. The ducks, for example, seem helpless and innocent to Holden, just like children are, and that is why they are significant to him.