Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Burroughs: The Anti-Santa Naturalist

Posted on May 19, 2012 by admin

(Originally published in the June 11, 1998 Woodstock Times.) By 1912, John Burroughs, a celebrated and opinionated author on the sublime importance of nature for one’s personal character, had noticed the birth of the automobile. And he didn’t like it. … Continue reading →

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Walt Whitman, an American, One of the Roughs, a Kosmos

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

(In 2003 The Country and Abroad published this appreciation. Though we no have Laura Bush to kick around, we will always have Whitman.) I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are … Continue reading →

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