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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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- “More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in wha…”John Burroughs
- “If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. Th…”John Burroughs
- “The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many hu…”John Burroughs
- “A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.”John Burroughs
Courage: more sayings
- “Your willingness to create a change in beliefs, a shift in energy, an acceptance of where you are, and the co…”Kim Ha Campbell
- “Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a…”Theodore Sturgeon
- “September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called…”Geraldine Brooks
Faith: more sayings
- “When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the gr…”Calvin W. Allison
- “Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and…”Gene Robinson
- “The longest travel-path leads to the sacred-destination.”Lailah Gifty Akita
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Books by John Burroughs
Winter Sunshine
1895