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1. "After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside." ~ John James Audubon
2. "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
3. "Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic." ~ John James Audubon
4. "My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish." ~ John James Audubon
5. "To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art." ~ John James Audubon
6. "As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature." ~ John James Audubon
7. "Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased." ~ John James Audubon
8. "How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?" ~ John James Audubon
9. "I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine." ~ John James Audubon
10. "I waged war against my feelings." ~ John James Audubon
11. "I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens." ~ John James Audubon
12. "The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear." ~ John James Audubon
13. "To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing." ~ John James Audubon
14. "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
15. "If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America." ~ John James Audubon
16. "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." ~ John James Audubon
17. "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
18. "Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them." ~ John James Audubon
19. "But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns." ~ John James Audubon
20. "During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks." ~ John James Audubon
21. "The mercantile business did not suit me." ~ John James Audubon
22. "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
23. "Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day." ~ John James Audubon
24. "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
25. "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best." ~ John James Audubon

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