Posts Tagged ‘John Burroughs’
The Redstart
by John Burroughs Standing in the road over in the woods, I saw a lively little shadow cast by some object above and behind me, on the ground in front of me. Turning, I saw the source of it — The Redstart Performing its astonishing gymnastics in a leafless oak tree… It is the quickest…
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John o’Birds Naturalist, poet, and philosopher John Burroughs (books by this author) was born on a dairy farm on April 3, 1837. He was sent to the local school, where his desk was next to that of Erie Railroad Robber Baron, Jay Gould (the son of a nearby neighbor). When Burroughs struggled in school, Gould…
Read MoreApril 3, 2019 Garden Moods, John Burroughs, Kate Brandegee, Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter, William Glassley, Magnifying Glass, Trilliums, and the Wake-Robin
As I was preparing for today’s show, I kept thinking about this quote from John Burrows: “… One’s own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the…
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