Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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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