If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail … - John James Audubon

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As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

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How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

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But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

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. . . nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

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

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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

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