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

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

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.

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.

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

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 worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.