John James Audubon Quotes

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
• Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
• During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
• Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
• In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
• I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
• Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
• My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
• The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
• To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
• I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no…
• If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although…
• On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of…
• On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I…
• As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
• . . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
• To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best…
• But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.
• The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint…

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