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" Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. "
John James Audubon
School
Going
Fields
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" 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. "
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" 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 on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops. "
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" A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The mercantile business did not suit me. "
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Mercantile
Business
" 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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" 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. "
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Failure
Best
" I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. "
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Man
Better
" I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. "
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Wish
Hands
" 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. "
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Three
Success
" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "
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Blessing
Good
Me
" 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. "
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Go
Me
" Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature. "
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Study
Life
" I waged war against my feelings. "
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Feelings
Against
War
" 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. "
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My Own
I Can
Myself
" 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. "
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Life
Wife
Children
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Birds
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Time
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Becoming
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Interesting
" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "
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Drawing
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" 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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Me
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" 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. "
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" The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? "
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Alone
Love
" 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. "
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