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

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myse….

Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at t….

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities..

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird..

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests..

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..

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place..

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds..

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear..

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

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligenc….

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day..

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic..

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….

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

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight..

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a ….

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midni….

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone woul….