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" 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
Go
Expect
Meet
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" 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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" 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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" Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family. "
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Smile
" I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. "
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Am
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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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Nature
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" 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. "
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Life
Eyes
" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "
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Mathematics
Dancing
Me
" 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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Living
Man
Better
" The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision. "
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Power
Vision
Myself
" 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
" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "
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Forever
Will
Kindness
" 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
Me
Retire
" 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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Flight
Bird
Eagle
" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "
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Duty
Much
Mother
" Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. "
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School
Going
Fields
" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "
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More
Art
Beautiful
" 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
" 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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Good
Three
Success
" But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. "
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Great
Flying
Birds
" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "
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Up
Grew
Becoming
" 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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Wife
Children
" 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
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Body
Wish
Hands
" 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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Love
God
Intelligence
" 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
" 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
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Who
Man
Environmental
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Places
Me
Interesting
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Blessing
Good
Me