“ The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. ”
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
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
