Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I waged war against my feelings. "

John James Audubon

Related Quotes:

" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "

John James Audubon

" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "

John James Audubon

" 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

" The mercantile business did not suit me. "

John James Audubon

" 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. "

John James Audubon

" I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. "

John James Audubon

" 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. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "

John James Audubon

" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "

John James Audubon

" 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. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? "

John James Audubon