19 Quotes by John Audubon

What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here? No - I give up the idea as a vain attempt.

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

My drawings of Owls and other birds of similar plumage were much improved. I have continued the style ever since.

My father... sailed as a sea captain to the West Indies, where in 1785 I found light and life in the New World.

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.

My plan is to publish one Number at my own expense and risk, and travel with it under my arm-and beg my way.

My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species.

Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze?