John Audubon Quotes (13 Quotes)

This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.

How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety Not I believe me.

What Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here No - I give up the idea as a vain attempt.

Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze

My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species.

To my Lucy I now offer myself with my stock, wares and chattels and all the devotedness of heart attached to such an enthusiastic being as I am.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

The Purchasing of Too Many goods sold on credit of course Lost, reduced us-Divided us.

How strangely Nature has provided them with the means of securing their eggs and young from their arch-enemy Man.

My plan is to publish one Number at my own expense and risk, and travel with it under my arm-and beg my way.

I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection as Ever I had and Hope God Will Grant Me the same Powers to proceed.

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.