John James Audubon Quotes

“In the presence of the physicians and academics who were Lyceum members his lack of formal education embarrassed him despite his hard-won ornithological expertise. "Among such people," he wrote, "I feel clouded and depressed; remember that I have done nothing, and fear that I may die unknown.”
― Richard Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of an American

“The river was too low to allow the Magnet passage. Audubon proposed to Victor that they walk the 250 miles to Louisville and he agreed.”
― Richard Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of an American