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

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

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

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

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

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.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

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.

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

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

The sacred lamp burns to give light

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from.

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.