Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. John James Audubon abroadcitycongregation Change image and share on social
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. John James Audubon caredrawfish Change image and share on social
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. John James Audubon barrenbeholdchange share on social
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. John James Audubon actapparelconfer Change image and share on social
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. John James Audubon brushcarefullycopy share on social
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. John James Audubon arrangementbeautifulcatch Change image and share on social