To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
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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
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.
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
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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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.
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