Question

Reread paragraphs 1–3 of the text, "Being in and Seeing Nature: The Writing of John Burroughs." Respond to the following prompt: "What was John Burroughs’s view of nature?" Reread for clarity. Check spelling and capitalization.

Answer 1

Answer:

In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose resonance with the tone of its cultural moment explains both its popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since.[2]