John James Audubon

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to…

— John James Audubon

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising…

— John James Audubon

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

— John James Audubon

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them…

— John James Audubon

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

— John James Audubon

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

— John James Audubon

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

— John James Audubon

My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.

— John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I…

— John James Audubon

“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”

— John James Audubon

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

— John James Audubon

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low…

— John James Audubon

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it…

— John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

— John James Audubon

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was…

— John James Audubon

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them…

— John James Audubon

[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in…

— John James Audubon

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads…

— John James Audubon

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until…

— John James Audubon

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has…

— John James Audubon

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

— John James Audubon

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a…

— John James Audubon

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

— John James Audubon