I waged war against my feelings.
From 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.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.
The mercantile business did not suit me.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
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.
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.
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