How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Birth: | 3rd April, 1837 |
Death: | 29th March, 1921 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Essayist, Naturalist |
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John Burroughs was born near Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, USA. He was an American naturalist and nature essayist who lived and wrote after the manner of Henry David Thoreau, studying and celebrating nature. In his earlier years he worked as a teacher and a farmer and for nine years as a clerk in the Treasury Department. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. His chief books, including Birds and Poets, Locusts and Wild Honey, Signs and Seasons, and Ways of Nature. He also wrote a volume of poems, Bird and Bough. Other collections of his essays are Time and Change, The Summit of the Years, The Breath of Life, Under the Apple Trees, and Field and Study.
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