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 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.

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.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

It’s a beautiful thing when someone presence alone whisper to your soul “I am Here for you.

I am publicly apolitical.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

The energy that moves across the ocean connects all surfers who ride it.