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

- John James Audubon

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

- John James Audubon

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

- John James Audubon

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.

- John James Audubon

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

- John James Audubon

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…

- John James Audubon

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

- John James Audubon

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

- John James Audubon

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

- John James Audubon