Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
John Burroughs was born April 3, 1837, in a little farmhouse among the Catskill Mountains. He was, like most other country boys, acquainted with all the hard work of farm life and enjoyed all the pleasures of the woods and streams. His family was poor, and he was forced at an...
Our blind, unreasoning animal anger is excited by whatever opposes or baffles us. Of course, when we yield to the anger, we do not act as reasonable beings, but as the unreasoni...
5. Chapter 5But he brought no material, he did no needful thing, he was a bird of leisure. The female did all the drudgery, and with what an air of grace and ease she did it! So soft of win...
3. Chapter 3When the young were hatched they seemed mainly fed with insects--spiders or flies gathered off the timbers and clapboards of the inside of the barn. It was a pretty sight to see...
4. Chapter 4We have in this latitude but one species of hibernating mouse--the long-tailed jumping mouse, or kangaroo mouse, as it is sometimes called from its mode of locomotion. Late one...
1. Chapter 1John Burroughs was born April 3, 1837, in a little farmhouse among the Catskill Mountains. He was, like most other country boys, acquainted with all the hard work of farm life a...
6. Chapter 6Summer always comes in the person of June, with a bunch of daisies on her breast and clover blossoms in her hands. A new chapter in the season is opened when these flowers appea...