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All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, althou...

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

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who hav...

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

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There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is...

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I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of s...

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I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and t...

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

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

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish...

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

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, ...

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The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable region...

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

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

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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cann...

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John James Audubon

Ornithologist

Born: 1785-04-26

Died: 1851-01-27

John James Audubon (26 April 1785 – 27 January 1851), born Jean Rabin, also known as Jean-Jacques Audubon, was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.More