The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

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.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.

I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.

Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.