I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
— John James Audubon
I waged war against my feelings.
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
