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

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

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

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.

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..

I read like the flame reads the wood.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about.

It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.