Art of Seeing Things : Selected Essays of

A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation.

John Burroughs was a writer and an environmentalist whose work was tremendously popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a friend and contemporary of Walt Whitman and John Muir Charlotte Zoe Walker is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Oneonta, where she teaches courses in nature and literature

Illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

Part One Perception and the Natural World

The Art of Seeing Things

3

(13)

Sharp Eyes

16

(14)

Bird-Songs

30

(9)

The Exhilarations of the Road

39

(10)

The Bluebird

49

(7)

Speckled Trout

56

(17)

The Crow

73

(6)

Part Two Farming and Rural Life

Phases of Farm Life

79

(16)

A Walk in the Fields

95

(4)

A Cow in the Capital

99

(6)

Part Three Far from Home

From ``In Green Alaska''

105

(9)

A Hunt for the Nightingale

114

(21)

Part Four Science and Field Study

The Grist of the Gods

135

(8)

From ``The Animal and the Puzzle-Box''

143

(8)

From Under the Apple Trees

151

(13)

Reading the Book of Nature

164

(7)

Part Five Conservation and Environmental Concerns

The Spring Bird Procession

171

(10)

The Ways of Sportsmen

181

(3)

Keeping the Iron from Our Souls

184

(3)

Part Six On Writers and Writing

Emerson and the Pine Tree

187

(2)

Thoreau's Wildness

189

(4)

From Whitman: A Study

193

(16)

An Egotistical Chapter

209

(12)

Part Seven Religion and Philosophy of Life

The Faith of a Naturalist

221

(11)

An Outlook upon Life

232

(13)

Part Eight Autobiography

Wild Life about My Cabin

245

(15)

From My Boyhood

260

(17)

Waiting

277

(2)

A John Burroughs Bibliography

279

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Art of Seeing Things : Selected Essays of John Burroughs

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