John Audubon Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by John Audubon
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“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”
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“I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.”
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“I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.”
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“Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.”
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“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.”
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“I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.”
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“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.”
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“In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.”
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“Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?”
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“This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.”
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