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" 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. "

John James Audubon

Heart

Destiny

Mountains

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" 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. "

" After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. "

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

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Meet

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

" One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. "

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

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Beautiful

" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "

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Blessing

Good

" 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. "

" In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. "

" Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me. "

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Powerful

" The mercantile business did not suit me. "

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

" The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished. "

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God

Growing Old

" The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised. "

" The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself. "

" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "

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Grew

Becoming

" I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution. "

" In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. "

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Myself

Retire

" 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 of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant. "

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

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Mathematics

Dancing

" My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. "

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" 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? "

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Hope

Think

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