Bob. Thank you for spotlighting John Burroughs’ work from so long ago. He had a profound impact educating people at a time when nature writing was animals in smoking jackets promoting the status quo of the elite. Trillium blooms are such an awakening of spring along with lady slippers, and trout lilies, mayflowers and wood anemones.
Thanks, I didn't know about Burroughs. His writing is reminiscent of Thoreau. Here in the Northeast we have the Painted Trillium and the Red Trillium; just gorgeous to see a carpet of these if one happens to be out in the woods at the right time.
The quotes from Walt Whitman are just right for this time of year. We have a lake and park outside Portland OR called Trillium Lake where you can observe the delicate white trillium in spring and the migrating birds. Thanks for sharing today!
Hello Joan, I m guessing by your last name and contact information, you are related. As you know better than I, John Burroughs’ writings were a clarion call to recognize wildlife by their own rights, on their terms, who they actually were, spots and all, and not metaphors for someone’s dogma as foisted by the nature fakers. Burroughs’ nature writing was unsurpassed and engaged more people w nature. Thank you for stewarding his legacy.
I’ve always loved trilliums: especially the rare white with red striped ones, and, yes, even the solid purple “stinking Benjamins”, as we called them in upstate New York and New England.
And I, too, as a child and youth, was nurtured on the works of John Burroughs and Donald Culross Peatier.
Bob. Thank you for spotlighting John Burroughs’ work from so long ago. He had a profound impact educating people at a time when nature writing was animals in smoking jackets promoting the status quo of the elite. Trillium blooms are such an awakening of spring along with lady slippers, and trout lilies, mayflowers and wood anemones.
Thank you! I am still learning about Burroughs and gaining a fuller appreciation of his work. -Bob
Thanks, I didn't know about Burroughs. His writing is reminiscent of Thoreau. Here in the Northeast we have the Painted Trillium and the Red Trillium; just gorgeous to see a carpet of these if one happens to be out in the woods at the right time.
The quotes from Walt Whitman are just right for this time of year. We have a lake and park outside Portland OR called Trillium Lake where you can observe the delicate white trillium in spring and the migrating birds. Thanks for sharing today!
Really nice. Thank you. Lovely passages from "With the Birds"/"The Return of the Birds."
Love to connect with you. joan@johnburroughsassociation.org
Hello Joan, I m guessing by your last name and contact information, you are related. As you know better than I, John Burroughs’ writings were a clarion call to recognize wildlife by their own rights, on their terms, who they actually were, spots and all, and not metaphors for someone’s dogma as foisted by the nature fakers. Burroughs’ nature writing was unsurpassed and engaged more people w nature. Thank you for stewarding his legacy.
I’ve always loved trilliums: especially the rare white with red striped ones, and, yes, even the solid purple “stinking Benjamins”, as we called them in upstate New York and New England.
And I, too, as a child and youth, was nurtured on the works of John Burroughs and Donald Culross Peatier.
Thanks for sharing a very interesting perspective on Burroughs.
more flowers should be named after birds!
Beautifully done....