Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

John James Audubon

Related Quotes:

" 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 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

" 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

" 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

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

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 worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

John James Audubon

" Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

John James Audubon

" But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. "

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

" 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

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

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