Who is John Burroughs

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.

In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose resonance with the tone of its cultural moment explains both its popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since.

Early life and marriage

Burroughs was the seventh of Chauncy and Amy Kelly Burroughs' ten children. He was born on the family farm in the Catskill Mountains, near Roxb...
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John Burroughs Poems

• Bluebird
  A wistful note from out the sky,
  'Pure, pure, pure,' in plaintive tone,
  As if the wand'rer were alone,
  And hardly knew to sing or cry. ...
• The Crow
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  My friend and neighbor through the year,
  Self-appointed overseer ...
• The Bobolink
  Daisies, clover, buttercup,
  Redtop, trefoil, meadowsweet,
  Ecstatic pinions, soaring up,
  Then gliding down to grassy seat....
• The Partridge
  List the booming from afar,
  Soft as hum of roving bee,
  Vague as when on distant bar
  Fall the cataracts of the sea....
• The Coming Of Phoebe
  When buckets shine 'gainst maple trees
  And dropp by dropp the sap doth flow,
  When days are warm, but still nights freeze,
  And deep in woods lie drifts of snow,...

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John Burroughs Quotes

• The secret of happiness is something to do.
• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

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Comments about John Burroughs

• Gonegonethankuu: i feel like i am an extended universe character to the senior class of john burroughs school
• Stlhssports: recap: john burroughs upends chaminade
• John_self: "he was promoting his life to art even as the complications of his accident condemned him to death." me on in youth is pleasure by denton welch, "probably the only author claimed as a key influence by both alan bennett and william s burroughs."
• Bohlechris: the faith of the “naturist”: john burroughs’s superb century-old manifesto for spirituality in the age of science – the marginalian
• Somemmadude: major goof on my part i set the video to publish at midnight instead of 12 lunchtime lol so go watch uncovering the minor role of joseph burroughs aka "peanut john" in lincoln's assassination

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