John James Audubon Quotes

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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, ...

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

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

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

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