John James Audubon
"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
"In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests."
"During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."
"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."
"The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear."
-John James Audubon
