The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised. John James Audubon Read Quote
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. John James Audubon Read Quote
The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides. John James Audubon Read Quote
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 intelligence in different beings and creatures. John James Audubon Read Quote
July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness. John James Audubon Read Quote
The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? John James Audubon Read Quote
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. John James Audubon Read Quote
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors. John James Audubon Read Quote
