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All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.
- John James Audubon
#Coward
#Creator
#I Am
#New
#Power
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
#Family
#Good
#Life
#Sad
#Success
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
- John James Audubon
#God
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#Work
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
#Care
#Life
#Man
#Me
#My Life
The mercantile business did not suit me.
- John James Audubon
#Business
#Did
#Me
#Mercantile
#Suit
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
- John James Audubon
#Body
#Hands
#I Wish
#Shoot
#Wish
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
- John James Audubon
#Forever
#Kindness
#Religion
#Repay
#Will
There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.
- John James Audubon
#Creatures
#God
#Intelligence
#Love
#Only
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
#Better
#I Am
#I Can
#Living
#Man
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
- John James Audubon
#Best
#Failure
#Good
#Nature
#Work
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.
- John James Audubon
#Bird
#Eagle
#Golden
#Long
#Wings
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.
- John James Audubon
#Gay
#Gentle
#Joy
#Night
#White
There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
- John James Audubon
#Alone
#Chance
#Plant
#See
#Unexpected
July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.
- John James Audubon
#Beautiful Day
#Beautiful
#Day
#I Am
#Saw
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
#Me
#Myself
#Noble
#Some
#Troubles
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
- John James Audubon
#Acquainted
#Becoming
#Grew
#Nature
#Up
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.
- John James Audubon
#Content
#Land
#Needs
#Never
#Waste
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
- John James Audubon
#Abandon
#Giving
#Industry
#Life
#Myself
#Nature
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
#Best
#Day
#Listening
#Watching
#Way
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
- John James Audubon
#Eyes
#Family
#I Am Happy
#I Am
#Life
#Me
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
- John James Audubon
#Constitution
#Day
#Good Health
#Good
#Health
#Wedding
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
- John James Audubon
#Follow
#Her
#Me
#Nature
#Within
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
- John James Audubon
#Best
#Distance
#Great
#Hope
#Shy
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
- John James Audubon
#Art
#Beautiful
#Did
#More
#Worse
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
- John James Audubon
#Family
#Great
#Men
#Smile
#Welcome
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