My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

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.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.