John burroughs biography

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    John Burroughs, Naturalist who lived in West Park

    John Burroughs was born 3 April in Roxbury, New York, the son of Chauncey Burroughs and Amy Kelly, farmers.   The Burroughs were early settlers in Massachusetts and traveled the common route from eastern Massachusetts to Connecticut,  then to upstate New York, bypassing the Hudson Valley for the most part because the greater part of the Valley was engaged in tenant farming, and many settlers preferred to be yeomen rather than continue the pattern of existence they had experienced in Europe.  The land west of the highest Catskills is more adaptable to farming, and attracted persons from central New York down through Delhi and Onteora.   John Burroughs' maternal grandfather, Edmund Kelly, of Irish descent, was born in Dutchess County, New York; his maternal grandmother, Lovina Liscom Minot, was a practical housewife.  Their daughter, Amy Kelly, like her father was an Old-School Baptist.   Burroughs th

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    John Burroughs

    American naturalist and essayist (–)

    For other people named John Burroughs, see John Burroughs (disambiguation).

    John Burroughs (April 3, – March 29, ) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States.[1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in

    In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose resonance with the tone of its cultural moment explains both its popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since.[2]

    Early life and marriage

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    Burroughs was the seventh of Chauncy and Amy Kelly Burroughs' ten children. He was born on the family farm in the Catskill Mountains, near Roxbury in Delaware County, New York. As a child he spent many hours on the

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    John Burroughs


    Born

    in Catskill Mountains nära Roxbury, N.Y., The United States

    April 03,


    Died

    March 29,


    Genre

    Science, naturlig eller utan tillsats , Conservationalism


    Influences

    Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Edison, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, RaRobert Ingersoll, Thomas Edison, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, John Muir, John James Audubonmore


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    In , naturalist John Burroughs was born on a farm in the Catskills. After teaching, and clerking in government, Burroughs returned to the Catskills, and devoted his life to writing and gardening. He knew Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and Walt Whitman, writing the first biography of Whitman. Most of his 22 books are collected essays on natur and philosophy. In In The Light of Day () he wrote about his views on religion: "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which fryst vatten verifiable, the old theology must go." "When inom look up at the sta