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From Quotes by 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.
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
- To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
- 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…
- A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon…
- There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different…
- The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse…
- There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests…
- From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the…
- Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of…
- The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by…
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