Under the Maples

by John Burroughs

Overview

It was while sitting in his hay-barn study in the Catskills and looking out upon the maple woods of the old home farm, and under the maples at Riverby, that the most of these essays were written, during the last two years of the author's life. And it was to the familiar haunts near his Hudson River home that his thoughts wistfully turned while wintering in Southern California in 1921. As pictured in his mind the ice breaking up on the river in the crystalline March days, the return of the birds, the first hepaticas, he longed to be back among them; he was there in spirit, gazing upon the river from the summer-house, or from the veranda of the Nest, or seated at this table in the chestnut-bark study, or busy with his sap-gathering and sugar-making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781490367767
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/06/2013
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.27(d)

Table of Contents

I.	The Falling Leaves	1
II.	The Pleasures of a Naturalist	11
III.	The Flight of Birds	32
IV.	Bird Intimacies	39
V.	A Midsummer Idyl	69
VI.	Near Views of Wild Life	79
VII.	With Roosevelt at Pine Knot	101
VIII.	A Strenuous Holiday	109
IX.	Under Genial Skies	127
I.	A Sun-Blessed Land	127
II.	Lawn Birds	129
III.	Silken Chambers	132
IV.	The Desert Note	143
V.	Sea-Dogs	148
X.	A Sheaf of Nature Notes	152
I.	Nature's Wireless	152
II.	Maeterlinck on the Bee	156
III.	Odd or Even	163
IV.	Why and How	165
V.	An Insoluble Problem	167
VI.	A Live World	169
VII.	Darwinism and the War	172
VIII.	The Robin	175
IX.	The Weasel	177
X.	Misinterpreting Nature	179
XI.	Natural Sculpture	181
XI.	Ruminations	184
I.	Man a Part of Nature	184
II.	Marcus Aurelius on Death	185
III.	The Interpreter of Nature	186
IV.	Original Sources	190
V.	The Cosmic Harmony	191
VI.	Cosmic Rhythms	193
VII.	The Beginnings of Life	194
VIII.	Spendthrift Nature	195
XII.	New Gleanings in Field and Wood	197
I.	Sunrise	197
II.	Nature's Methods	199
III.	Heads and Tails	205
IV.	An Unsavory Subject	206
V.	Chance in Animal Life	208
VI.	Mosquitoes and Fleas	210
VII.	The Change of Climate in Southern California	210
VIII.	All-Seeing Nature	212
	Index	217