John James Audubon Quotes & Quotations

John James Audubon Quotes

» On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

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

» I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

» To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

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

» On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

» One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

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

» 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.

» I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

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