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

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

  2. As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

  3. But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

  4. 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.

  5. During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

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