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

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.

If every problem you encountered was easily overcome, would you be the strong person you are today?

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]

Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.