I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

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.

Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)

The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

But he knows that no man is an island.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.