Henry James described John Burroughs as a "more humorous, more
available, and more sociable Thoreau." Burroughs's close friend and
mentor Walt Whitman called him an "Audubon of prose." Throughout
his long writing career, the Catskills and Hudson Valley native
infused his writing with images of nature as seen and experienced
within his own home region. "Nature comes home to one most when he
is at home," he wrote, "the stranger and traveler finds her a
stranger and traveler also. 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 horizon: cut those trees, and he
bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers." With this poetic
sensibility and emphasis on the local, Burroughs created a unique
literature of nature - one aptly represented by the essays here-in.
"Please note that all profits from the sale of this book will be
donated to support the educational and environmental programs of
the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc."
CONTENTS
Introduction. A Sharp Lookout. The Falling Leaves. A Snow Storm.
Wild Life in Winter. Winter Neighbors. April. A Young Marsh Hawk.
Strawberries. Speckled Trout. Birch Browsings. Notes by the Way.
The Heart of the Southern Catskills.
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