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" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "
John James Audubon
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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
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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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Deal
Great
Made
" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "
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Will
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" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "
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Within
Years
" 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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" But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. "
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" 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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" 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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Good
Failure
Best
" In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. "
John James Audubon
Myself
Me
Retire
" My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. "
John James Audubon
Success
Prevail
Genius
" 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. "
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Wild
Day
Beautiful
" I waged war against my feelings. "
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Feelings
Against
War
" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "
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Music
Drawing
Fishing
" The mercantile business did not suit me. "
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Suit
Mercantile
Business
" 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 me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. "
John James Audubon
Me
New York
Yellow
" 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. "
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Day
Four
One Day
" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "
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Event
Curious
Help
" Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. "
John James Audubon
School
Going
Fields
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Me
God
Growing Old
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Drive
Go
Me
" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "
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More
Art
Beautiful
" I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. "
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Best
Listening
Day
" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "
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Mathematics
Dancing
Me
" 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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Friend
Me
Powerful
" 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. "
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Power
Coward
Blood
" 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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Who
Man
Environmental
" 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. "
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Change
Eye
Good
" In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. "
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View
America
Object
" I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. "
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Strange
Am
I Am
" 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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Me
Acts
Only