John James Audubon Quotes
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My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight ...
— John James Audubon
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— 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
I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.
— 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
I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
— John James Audubon
I waged war against my feelings.
— 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 cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.
— 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
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
— John James Audubon
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
— John James Audubon
When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.
— 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
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
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
— John James Audubon
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.
— John James Audubon
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
— 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
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
— John James Audubon
Nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
— John James Audubon
The mercantile business did not suit me.
— John James Audubon
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
— John James Audubon
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— 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
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
— John James Audubon
Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.
— John James Audubon
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
— John James Audubon
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[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
— Georges Cuvier
Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
— John James Audubon
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.
— John James Audubon
