Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

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Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

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