I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

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.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

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.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

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.

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