Quotes by : John James Audubon

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

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits....

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from....

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although....

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

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is....

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

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and....

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot....

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