Quote of the day
No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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)