Tag: Audubon

• Be Like Audubon And Fly

  

  John James Audubon’s father wanted his son to be a navy guy, but luckily for us he flunked the officers’ qualification test and  happily went back to studying birds, traipsing around America and drawing what he saw. Back then some birds were so unused to humans that they had no fear and sometimes would alight…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 5, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, Men

  19th century, Art, Audubon, birds, Birds of America, Books, education, Most expensive book, Paintings, Swans, Wildlife