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- John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States.
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John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. [1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.
John Burroughs (born April 3, 1837, near Roxbury, N.Y., U.S.—died March 29, 1921, en route from California to New York) was an American essayist and naturalist who lived and wrote after the manner of Henry David Thoreau, studying and celebrating nature.
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John Burroughs (1837-1921) was a popular writer of his time and called “father of the nature essay”, yet surprisingly he is not widely read today. Spending most of his life in the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River valley, his life was deeply rooted in the land he loved.
Aug 31, 2015 · John Burroughs (b. 1837–d. 1921) was perhaps the best-known and most widely read American nature writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but he is largely unknown and unread today.
May 29, 2018 · The American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote prolifically of his experiences in nature and was one of America's most honored writers at the beginning of the 20th century.
John Burroughs was a keen observer of the natural world. He hiked the woods around his native Catskills home, fished the streams, listened to birdsongs, and cataloged the world he found there in essays that influenced others to find that same love of nature.
John Burroughs (1837 – 1921) American naturalist and writer. A follower of both Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Burroughs more clearly defined the nature essay as a literary form. His writings provided vivid descriptions of outdoor life and gained popularity among a diverse audience.
