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John Burroughs

Born

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

April 03, 1837

Died

March 29, 1921

Genre

Science, Nature, Conservationalism

Influences

Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Edison, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Ra ...more

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In 1837, naturalist John Burroughs was born on a farm in the Catskills. After teaching, and clerking in government, Burroughs returned to the Catskills, and devoted his life to writing and gardening. He knew Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and Walt Whitman, writing the first biography of Whitman. Most of his 22 books are collected essays on nature and philosophy. In In The Light of Day (1900) he wrote about his views on religion: "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go." "When I look up at the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what is it that I really see there, I am constrained to say, 'There is no God' . . . " In his journal ...more

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	Camping and Tramping With President Roosevelt 4.01 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1907 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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: Essays by John Burroughs by John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoe Walker (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1921 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Wake-Robin 3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1871 — 244 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs 4.03 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1910 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Ways of Nature 3.59 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1989 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	El Arte de Ver las Cosas by John Burroughs, Ana González Hortelano (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Gospel of Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Signs and Seasons: John Burroughs by John Burroughs, Jeff Walker (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1901 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Winter Sunshine 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1876 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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.”
― 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

tags: character, hope, motivational

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