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"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."
"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."
"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."
"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."
"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."
"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
"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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