John James Audubon
1785-1851
American Painter, Woodsman and Writer
Birth Place - Santo Domingo in 1785
Education - enrolled in the French Naval Academy at he age of 14.
Other occupations - a limner (traveling portrait artist), dance instructor, clerk and taxidermist.
Marriage - 1808 to local schoolmarm Lucy Bakewell.
Legal Woes - 1819 he was briefly jailed for failing to pay his debts.
Cause of Death - Old Age
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I am as dull as a beetle. --
John James Audubon Quote
Up the river the view was
indeed enchanting.; the
undulating meadows sloped
gently to the water's edge
on either side, and the
larks that sprang up before
me, welcoming the sun's
rise, animated my thoughts
so much that I felt tears
trickling down my cheeks as
I gave thanks to the God who
gave life to all these in a
day. -- John James Audubon
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A true conservationist is a
man who knows that the world
is not given by his fathers
but borrowed from his
children. -- John James Audubon
Wild Turkey
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Look at that mallard as he
floats on the lake; see his
elevated head glittering
with emerald green, his
amber eyes glancing in the
light! Even at this
distance, he has marked you,
and suspects that you bear
no goodwill towards him, for
he sees that you have a gun,
and he has many a time been
frightened by its report, or
that of some other. The wary
bird draws his feet under
his body, springs upon then,
opens his wings, and with
loud quacks bids you
farewell.-- John James
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American White Pelican
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High up on the waters of the
San Joaquin, in California,
many of these animals have
been killed by the miners
now overrunning all the
country west of the Sierra
Nevada. Greatly as the
Grizzly Bear is dreaded, it
is hunted with all the more
enthusiasm by these fearless
pioneers in the romantic
hills, valleys, and wild
mountains of the land of
gold, as its flesh is highly
prized by men who have been
living for months on salt
pork or dry and tasteless
deer-meat. I have seen two
dollars a pound paid for the
leaf-fat around the kidneys.
If there is time, and the
animal is not in a starving
condition, the Grizzly Bear
always runs at the sight of
man, but... it is rare to
find a man who would
willingly come into
immediate contact with one
of these powerful and
vindictive brutes. Some were
killed near 'Green Springs,'
on the Stanislaus, in the
winter of 1849-50, that were
nearly eight hundred pounds
weight. I saw many cubs at
San Francisco, Sacramento
city, and Stockton, and even
those not larger than an
ordinary sized dog, showed
evidence of their future
fierceness, as it required
great patience to render
them gentle enough to be
handled with impunity as
pets. The different colours
of the pelage of this
animal, but for the
uniformity of its
extraordinary claws, would
puzzle any one not
acquainted with its form,
for it varies from jet black
in the young of the first
and second winter to the
hoary gray of age, or of
summer. --- John James
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Mallard Duck
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The sun at length sank
beneath the waterline that
here formed the horizon; and
we saw the birds making
their first appearance. They
were in small parties of
two, three, or five, and by
no menas shy. --- John James
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Audubon mother was a comely
young French chambermaid and
his father was a handsome
plantation owner and man of
the sea.
Audubon was illegitimate
but supported fully by his
father.
Audubon's mother died when
he was just 6 months of age.
In 1803 Audubon fled to
America in to escape being
conscripted into Napoleon's
bloodthirsty army.
Despite some financial
success Audubon was always
under the threat of debtor's
prison and on the edge of
bankruptcy
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