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The long road I have in mind is the long road of evolution,—­the
road you and I have traveled in the guise of humbler
organisms, from the first unicellular life in the
old Cambrian seas to...
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The American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote prolifically of his experiences in nature and was one of America's most honored writers at the beginning of the 20th century.The s...
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John Burroughs is still revered by some conservationists and bird watchers as the Homer of the nature essay. As a literary critic, however, he has been met since his death in 1921 with a silence that ...
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One of the best-known and most widely read nature writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, John Burroughs is largely unknown and unread today. Prolific and consistent, Burroughs p...
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John Burroughs
John Burroughs