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1785–1851 United States
John James Audubon (26 April 1785 – 27 January 1851), born Jean Rabin, also known as Jean-Jacques Audubon, was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.
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I cannot write at all, but if I could how could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? I will not write at all.
Journal entry in Audubon and His Journals (1897)
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.
The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist (1868)
Captain Hall expressed some doubts as to my views respecting the affection and love of pigeons, as if I made it human, and raised the possessors quite above the brutes. I presume the love of the mothers for their young is much the same as the love of woman for her offspring. 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.
The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist (1868)
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
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