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From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land.
— John James Audubon
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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?
— John James Audubon
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I waged war against my feelings.
— John James Audubon
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My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.
— John James Audubon
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
— John James Audubon
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
— John James Audubon
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