The Writings Of John Burroughs The Breath Of Life

Author : John Burroughs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539905110
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Breath of Life. by written by John Burroughs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. 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.Burroughs was the seventh of Chauncy and Amy Kelly Burroughs' ten children. He was born on the family farm in the Catskill Mountains, near Roxbury in Delaware County, New York. As a child he spent many hours on the slopes of Old Clump Mountain, looking off to the east and the higher peaks of the Catskills, especially Slide Mountain, which he would later write about. As he labored on the family farm he was captivated by the return of the birds each spring and other wildlife around the family farm including frogs and bumblebees. In his later years he credited his life as a farm boy for his subsequent love of nature and feeling of kinship with all rural things.