John James Audubon Quotes

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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.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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• Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

  John James Audubon

  Giving Up, Bird, Listening

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• If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Lonely, Bird

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• When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

  John James Audubon

  Believe, Book, Bird

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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.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Bird, Listening

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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

  John James Audubon

  Not Caring, Hunting, Fishing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, Drawing, Originals

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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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 modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

  John James Audubon

  Degrees, Different, Kind

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  John James Audubon

  Noble, Forests, Trouble

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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

  John James Audubon

  Years, Tendencies, Walks

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Spring, Farewell

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

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

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Science, Glowing

  John James Audubon (1831). “Ornithological Biography, Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners”, p.7

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• Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

  John James Audubon

  School, Fields, Made

  "Audubon's Story of His Youth".

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• [Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.

  John James Audubon

  Journey, Views, Drawing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

  John James Audubon

  Heart, Delight, My Heart

  John James Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, Elliott Coues (1994). “Audubon and His Journals”, p.358, Courier Corporation

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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.

  John James Audubon

  Men, Bird, Letters

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• 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.

  John James Audubon

  Trying, Fruit, Talent

  John James Audubon (1873). “The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist”, p.145

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• Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

  John James Audubon

  Men, Way, Welcome

  John James Audubon (1873). “The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist”, p.169

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• A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Moon, Bird

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

  John James Audubon

  Thinking, Events, Helping

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• . . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Superiors

  "The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist". Book by Robert Buchanan, on a meeting with a young artist, Mr. J. B. Kidd, Ch. X, p. 140, 1868.

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

  John James Audubon

  Book, Dozen, Littles

  John James Audubon (1967). “The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon”, Norman : University of Oklahoma Press

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

  John James Audubon

  Kindness, Evil, Forever

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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• 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?

  John James Audubon

  Men, Fur, May

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  John James Audubon

  Drawing, Firsts, Made

  John James Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, Elliott Coues (1994). “Audubon and His Journals”, p.527, Courier Corporation

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