Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.John James Audubon
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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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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But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
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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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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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