Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better. "

Related Quotes:

" I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors. "

John James Audubon

Acts

Only

" Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. "

" All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. "

" Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. "

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

" Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. "

" Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. "

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

" 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 remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. "

" 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 I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. "

" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "

" I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. "

" Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it. "

John James Audubon

Expect

Meet

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

John James Audubon

Art

Beautiful

" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "

" July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness. "

" I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. "

John James Audubon

Strange

I Am

" I waged war against my feelings. "

" 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 heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. "

" Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? "

John James Audubon

Hope

Think

" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "

John James Audubon

Mathematics

Dancing

" But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. "

" 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 feathery tribes of our country. "

John James Audubon

Places

Interesting

" I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. "

" 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 degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures. "

" The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. "

" 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. "

" I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. "

" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "

" The mercantile business did not suit me. "