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" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "
John James Audubon
Book
Little
Books
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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
" 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. "
John James Audubon
America
World
Peace
" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "
John James Audubon
Mathematics
Dancing
Me
" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "
John James Audubon
Blessing
Good
Me
" 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
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Good
Failure
Best
" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "
John James Audubon
Up
Grew
Becoming
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Flight
Bird
Eagle
" 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
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Family
Life
Eyes
" I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. "
John James Audubon
Body
Wish
Hands
" In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. "
John James Audubon
View
America
Object
" 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
" The mercantile business did not suit me. "
John James Audubon
Suit
Mercantile
Business
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country. "
John James Audubon
Places
Me
Interesting
" On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. "
John James Audubon
Time
Short
Myself
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Change
Eye
Good
" 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
" 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
" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "
John James Audubon
Event
Curious
Help
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Day
Four
One Day
" 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. "
John James Audubon
Living
Man
Better
" 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
" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "
John James Audubon
Nature
Within
Years
" 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