Excerpt from The Seer of Slabsides This title, The Seer of Slabsides, does not quite fit John Burroughs - the Bur roughs I knew. He was a see-er. A lover of nature, he watched 'the ways of bird and beast; a lover of life, he thought out and wrought out a serene human philosophy that made himiteach er and interpreter of the simple and the near at hand rather than of such things as are hidden and far off. He was alto gether human; a poet, not a prophet; a great lover of the earth, of his portion of it in New York State, and of everything and everybody dwelling there with him.4 53m}; slabsides He has added volumes to the area of New York State, Degreesand peopled them with immortal folk - little folk, bees, blue birds, speckled trout, and wild straw berries. He was chicfly concerned with living at Slabsides, or at Woodchuck Lodge, and with writing what he lived. He loved much, observed and inter preted much, speculated a little, but dreamed none at all. The Lover of Woodchuck Lodge I might have called him, rather than The Seer of Slabsides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.