John James
John James
flower blood battle
Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
long style copying
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.
fall blood illusions-of-grandeur
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.
thinking events helping
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine
blessing draftsman
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
kindness thinking errors
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
new-york men kind-man
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
men bird letters
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
school fields made
Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
distance gun bird
But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.
book dozen littles
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
husband children europe
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
hands eight wish
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
kindness evil forever
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.