John James Audubon Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

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

  John James Audubon

  Believe, Book, Bird

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

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Gun, Bird

• A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Moon, Bird

• 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.

  John James Audubon

  Men, Bird, Letters

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

• Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

  John James Audubon

  Giving Up, Bird, Listening

• If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Lonely, Bird

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

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, Bird, Matter

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

• Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Spring, Farewell

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Bird, Listening

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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