Contact Us "A friend of every living thing, a lover of each bloom and tree you loved to study every feature of nature’s verdant finery; and every breeze brought song’s of nature to spell your soul with rare delight, while gently, with day studies over, came all the soothing notes of night. With springtime’s rush of birds and flowers, we miss you in these joyous hours. Earth thanks you for, greater pioneer, your noble out-of-doors career." - A quote from Harold Roland Johnson thanking John Burroughs, naturalist, for the good work he had done