"IN STUDYING NATURE THE IMPORTANT TTHING IS NOT SO MUCH WHAT WEW SEE AS HOW WE INTERPRET WHAT WE SEE"
BURROUGHS, John. Ways of Nature. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1905. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. $900.
First edition, inscribed by the author, "In studying nature the important thing is not so much what we see as how we interpret what we see. John Burroughs."
"Burroughs, under the influence of Emerson and Thoreau, became the greatest writer of nature essays after his two Transcendentalist masters" (Hart, 111). BAL 2176.
Minor staining to front cover. A desirable signed copy with an excellent inscription by Burroughs.