John James Audubon Bird Quotations

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.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.