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About John Burroughs
American naturalist and nature essayist
John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist. He was active in the conservation movement in the United States and is remembered for writing about the natural world. His first essay collection, Wake-Robin, appeared in 1871. Burroughs’s work helped shape American nature writing, with essays that reflect close attention to landscapes, plants, and wildlife.
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- “From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our sol…”Solomon Ortiz
- “I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young…”Suzanne Somers
- “People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”Antonia Fraser
Forests: more sayings
- “At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the for…”Peter Quinby
- “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved m…”Franz Kafka
- “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up…”Gustave Flaubert
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Books by John Burroughs
Winter Sunshine
1895