John Burroughs

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

April 03, 1837

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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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	Signs & Seasons 4.73 of 5 stars 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camping And Tramping With President Roosevelt 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Woods 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Seeing Things by John Burroughs (Contributor), Charlotte Zoe Walker (Editor) 4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accepting the Universe: Essays in Naturalism 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John James Audubon 4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1902 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest of a Quiet Eye: The Natural World of John Burroughs 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1900 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indoor Studies: The Writings of John Burroughs Part Eight 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fresh Fields 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1886 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
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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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