John Burroughs |
1837-1921
John Muir (left) with John Burroughs |
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- Literary naturalist
and essayist from the Catskills of New York.
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- John Burroughs
was one of America's foremost nature writers. He was a biographer
of Walt Whitman and is famous for his love of birds.
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- Burroughs accompanied
Muir on the Alaska Harriman Expedition and other trips, including
visits to Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
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- Burroughs wrote
of Muir after their second meeting: "He
is a poet and almost a Seer. Something ancient and far-away in the
look of his eyes. He could not sit down in the corner of the landscape,
as Thoreau did, he must have a continent for his playground..... Probably
the truest lover of Nature.... we have yet had... [But here is] a
little prolix... Ask him to tell you his famous dog story and you
will get the whole theory of glaciation thrown in."
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- After Muir's
death, Burroughs made this comment: "A
unique character - greater as a talker than as a writer
- he loved personal combat and shone in it. He hated writing and
composed with difficulty, though his books have charm of style;
but his talk came easily and showed him at his best. I shall greatly
miss him."
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Travels with Muir and Burroughs as told by Clara Barrus:
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| Photograph courtesy of John
Muir National Historic Site Museum Collections, U. S. National
Park Service. |