1908. Volume Fifteen of Twenty-Three, Riverby Edition. John Burroughs emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day. Through his essays in books and popular magazines, John Burroughs taught countless Americans to appreciate nature. Contents: The Art of Seeing Things; The Coming of Summer; A Breath of April; A Walk in the Fields; Gay Plumes and Dull; Straight Seeing and Straight Thinking; Human Traits in the Animals; Animal and Plant Intelligence; The Reasonable but Unreasoning Animals; The Grist of the Gods; The Divine Soil; An Outlook Upon Life; and All's Right with the World. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.