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

~John James Audubon

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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

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

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I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

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The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

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

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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

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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 than I do the habits of our birds.

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

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After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: April 26th, 1785

Died: January 27th, 1851

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