Quotes by John James Audubon

John James Audubon

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

Nature

Superiors

[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers’ view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.

Drawing

Journey

Views

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

Art

Bird

Moon

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

Children

Father

Nature

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

America

Europe

Home

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 Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

Blood

Fall

Illusions Of Grandeur

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

Fields

Made

School

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Glowing

Nature

Science

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

Father

Mother

Navy

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

Bird

Distance

Gun

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America

Art

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Blessing

Blood

Book

Bunting

Children

Copying

Dancing

Degrees

Delight

Different

Distance

Dolphins

Dozen

Draftsman

Drawing

Dull

Eight

Errors

Europe

Events

Evil

Exercise

Fall

Farewell

Father

Fields

Firsts

Fishing

Flying

Forests

Forever

Fruit

Fur

Giving

Giving Up

Glowing

Growing

Gun

Hands

Heart

Helping

Hints

Home

Horse

Hunting

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Quotes by John James Audubon

John James Audubon

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers’ view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

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

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

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 Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

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