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 AudubonTo have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
John James AudubonThe 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 AudubonA true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon