Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
John Burroughs
Born: April 3, 1837
Died: March 29, 1921 (aged 83)
Bio: John Burroughs 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.
Known for:
- The art of seeing things
- Ways of nature (1904)
- Wake-Robin (1871)
- Accepting the universe (1913)
- Signs and seasons (1886)
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