Posts Tagged ‘John Burroughs’
How Beautiful Leaves Grow Old
by John Burroughs How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. John Burroughs
Read MoreJune 10, 2019 The Significance of Lilacs, National Herbs and Spices Day, Jardin des Plantes, Robert Brown, Gorgeous George and Judy Garland’s Hibiscus, Frances Theodora Parsons, Natural Selection, Dan Pearson, Box Cutters, and Inspiration from John Burroughs
My neighbor, up at our cabin, has this amazing copse of lilacs. We’ve become good friends, and he invited me to take some cuttings of his lilac as a gesture of goodwill. (He also gives me all of his jack-in-the-pulpits – but that’s another story.) Over time, lilacs have met different things to different people.…
Read MoreHow Naturalist John Burroughs Inspired His Neighbor Frances Parsons to Write “How to Know the Wildflowers”
“The pleasure of a walk in the woods and the fields is enhanced a hundredfold by some little knowledge of the flowers we meet at every turn.” June 10, 1952 On this day, gardener and nature writer Frances Parsons died. When researching Frances Parsons, I discovered that her childhood neighbor was John Burroughs. John…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreJohn Burroughs
John o’Birds Naturalist, poet, and philosopher John Burroughs (books by this author) was born on a dairy farm on this date in 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,…
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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