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Ways of Nature

by John Burroughs

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John Burroughs revisits his own assumptions about animal intelligence in this collection of nature essays. After objecting to writers who gave wild creatures human motives, he examines how instinct, memory and experience might explain their actions. Birds dropping shellfish onto rocks, squirrels cutting chestnut burs and robins choosing unusual nest materials become examples in a sustained argument about the limits of animal reasoning. The preface acknowledges that he returns to the same questions across several essays as his views develop.

His observations move between field, woodland and familiar animals, including a sparrow whose nest is crowded by growing grapes and a dog that recognizes someone who once hurt it. Burroughs weighs plausible accounts against stories he finds too convenient, separating what he has seen from what others claim.

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John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American essayist and farmer from New York's Catskills who published more than two dozen books on birds, seasons, and country life. A friend of Whitman, Roosevelt, and Edison, he was among the most widely read naturalists of his day.

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