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

John James Audubon

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

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" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "

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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. "

John James Audubon

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

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. "

John James Audubon

" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops. "

John James Audubon

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

John James Audubon

" The mercantile business did not suit me. "

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

" 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

" In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. "

John James Audubon

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

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

" My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. "

John James Audubon

" To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. "

John James Audubon

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

John James Audubon

" 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. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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