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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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- “Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.”John Burroughs
- “Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study…”John Burroughs
- “The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is…”John Burroughs
- “To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting…”John Burroughs
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Books by John Burroughs
Winter Sunshine
1895