I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

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.

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.