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" 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

Interesting

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" The mercantile business did not suit me. "

" 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. "

" 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

Myself

Retire

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

John James Audubon

Mathematics

Dancing

" 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

New York

Yellow

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

John James Audubon

Blessing

Good

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I waged war against my feelings. "

" 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. "

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

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

John James Audubon

Strange

I Am

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

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

" A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. "

" 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? "

" All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. "

" 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. "

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