"I cannot write at all, but if I could how could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? I will not write at all."
— John James Audubon

January 1, 1970

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Journal entry in Audubon and His Journals (1897), edited by Maria R. Audubon, Vol. I, "The European Journals 1826 - 1829", p. 184