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" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "
John James Audubon
Duty
Much
Mother
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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. "
John James Audubon
Good
Three
Success
" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "
John James Audubon
Music
Drawing
Fishing
" 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
" 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
Me
Acts
Only
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Alone
Chance
Flying
" 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. "
John James Audubon
My Own
I Can
Myself
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Day
Health
Wedding
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Love
God
Intelligence
" I waged war against my feelings. "
John James Audubon
Feelings
Against
War
" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "
John James Audubon
Blessing
Good
Me
" But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. "
John James Audubon
Great
Flying
Birds
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Never
Hurricane
Think
" 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? "
John James Audubon
Nature
Alone
Love
" 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
" I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. "
John James Audubon
Body
Wish
Hands
" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "
John James Audubon
Forever
Will
Kindness
" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "
John James Audubon
Event
Curious
Help
" To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. "
John James Audubon
Art
Time
Study
" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "
John James Audubon
Up
Grew
Becoming
" 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
" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "
John James Audubon
Nature
Within
Years
" 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. "
John James Audubon
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. "
John James Audubon
Who
Man
Environmental
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Exhausted
Nature
Young
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Distance
Great
Horse
" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "
John James Audubon
More
Art
Beautiful
" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "
John James Audubon
Book
Little
Books
" My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. "
John James Audubon
Deal
Great
Made
" 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
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Best
Listening
Day