The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

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

[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.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

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

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.