"The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power……" — 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 shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides."
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John James Audubon
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61 Quotes by John James Audubon
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him…
— William Faulkner
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard…
— Maxine
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We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard,…
— Edward Abbey
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Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.
— John Harvey Kellogg
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You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you…
— Morris Graves
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the…
— Tamora Pierce
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All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my…
— Cy Young
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Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact,…
— Tom Robbins
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The best meal fore a hungry buzzard is a dead hourse, that is to say in order words even a…
— Nkemjika
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I heard of bad breath before but yours could knock a buzzard offf a shit wagon
— George Carlin
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