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?

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

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

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.