Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Thornton Burgess
Born: January 14, 1874
Died: June 5, 1965 (aged 91)
Bio: Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
Known for:
- Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913)
- Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919)
- Old Mother West Wind (1910)
- The Burgess animal book for children (1920)
- The adventures of Jimmy Skunk (1918)