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Updated: May 7, 2025
No other sentiment is so universal or so powerful in its influence as love that energizes the mind and heart. Love lent swiftness to the feet of Sir Galahad; lent his heart courage; lent his sword victory. Entering the palace, love, said Cicero, "makes gold shine." Love for the birds lent fame to Audubon; just as love for the bees lent fortune to Huber.
As I concluded, I looked across at Audubon, to see if I had made any impression upon him. But he only smiled at me rather ironically and said, "Is that meant, may I ask, for an account of everyday experience?" "Rather," I replied, "for an interpretation of it." "It would need a great deal of interpretation," he said, "to make anything of the kind out of mine."
Therefore, after declaring it to be illegal to kill any bird of either class between sunset and sunrise, the regulations went on to state that insect-eating birds shall not be killed in any place or in any manner, even in the daytime. Among other things this provision, by one stroke, completed the campaign which the Audubon Society had been waging for long years on behalf of the Robin.
He was not a closet naturalist either. Like the great Audubon he was fond of the outside world. He was fond of drawing his lessons from Nature herself.
Audubon. Sir Walter came forward, pressed my hand warmly, and said he was 'glad to have the honour of meeting me. His long, loose, silvery locks struck me; he looked like Franklin at his best. He also reminded me of Benjamin West; he had the great benevolence of William Roscoe about him and a kindness most prepossessing. I could not forbear looking at him, my eyes feasted on his countenance.
I became acquainted with him through his family's attending our church, and one day proposed to Mr. Bryant to go with me to see him. Seating himself before the poet, Audubon quietly said, "You are our flower," a very pretty compliment, I thought, from a man of the woods. I happened to fall in with Mr.
Audubon, the ornithologist, who has followed the pursuit by many a long wandering in the American forests.
Parke Godwin visited Audubon in 1846, and gives this account of his visit: "The house was simple and unpretentious in its architecture, and beautifully embowered amid elms and oaks.
"That depends," replied Ellis. "Yes," I said, "it depends on many things! But what I was thinking of was that, quite apart from that experience, and in the moments of sober observation, one does feel, does one not, a ^correspondence between body and soul, as though the one were the expression of the other?" "I don't know," objected Audubon. "What I feel is much more often a discrepancy."
Our talk was short: but the impression which was made on my mind at the time by himself, his officers, and his place of abode, can never be forgotten." Late in the summer of 1837, Audubon, with his son John and his new wife the daughter of Dr. Bachman, returned to England for the last time. He finally settled down again in Edinburgh and prepared the fourth volume of his "Ornithological Biography."
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