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