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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
Explore more quotes by John James Audubon

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."

"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."

"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."

"On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise."

"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside."

"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."

"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."

"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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