Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
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)






