This fascinating work is a collection of essays filled with nature studies on bird behavior
poetry focusing on birds a text on the nature of cows and a piece of literary criticism on
Walt Whitman. In addition John Burroughs made wonderful observations of nature especially the
change of seasons and how it embodies itself in the air ground and earth. Content includes:
Birds and Poets Touches of Nature A Bird Medley April Spring Poems Our Rural Divinity Before
Genius Before Beauty Emerson The Flight of the Eagle
