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John Burroughs

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April 03, 1837 in Catskill Mountains near Roxbury, N.Y., The United States

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March 29, 1921

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John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own.

His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 187...more

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Books by John Burroughs

Average rating: 3.76 · 68 ratings · 13 reviews · 106 distinct works

	Camping And Tramping With President Roosevelt 400 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Signs & Seasons 460 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Accepting the Universe: Essays in Naturalism 314 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Deep Woods 360 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fresh Fields 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1886 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Seeing Things by John Burroughs (Essay by), Charlotte Zoe Walker (Editor) 450 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Old Yellowstone Days 400 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Harvest of a Quiet Eye: The Natural World of John Burroughs 350 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Winter Sunshine 300 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1876 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Wake-Robin 300 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1880 — 14 editions	My rating:

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“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
― John Burroughs

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“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
― John Burroughs

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