John James Audubon Quotes

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

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

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• In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

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• Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

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

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

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

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

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• The mercantile business did not suit me.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

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

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

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Birth:	26th April, 1785
Death:	27th January, 1851
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Ornithologist

About

John James Audubon was born in Les Cayes, Haiti. He was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter known for his studies, drawings and paintings of North American birds. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. He identified 25 new species. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. He wrote other books include: American Ornithological Biography, and The Quadrupeds of America (with John Bachman).

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