John Burroughs

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. From the very beginnings of his taste for literature, the essay was his favorite form. Dr. Johnson was the prophet of his youth, but he soon transferred his allegiance to Emerson, who for many years remained his ""master enchanter."" To cure himself of too close an imitation of the Concord seer, which showed itself in his fi...

At the time I made the trip to Yellowstone Park with President Roosevelt in the spring of 1903, I promised some friends to write up my impressions of the President and of the Park, but I have been slow in getting around to it. The President himself, having the absolute leisure and peace of the White House, wrote his account of the trip nearly tw...

John Burroughs (1837 ù 1921) was an American naturalist important to the Conservation movement. He like Thoreau wrote essays on nature. Burroughs was the ôGrand Old Man of Natureö when the American romance with nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. He grew up on a farm in New York and at age 17 became a t...