Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

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

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

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.

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.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.