John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.