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". . . It is something for which busy men and women may well be thankful, therefore, that so many of the most pleasing, or otherwise interesting, of all our birds are among those which may be called birds for everybody. Such are the robin, the bluebird, the Baltimore oriole,- or golden robin, - the blue jay, the crow, and the chickadee. Of all these we may say that they are common; they come in every one's way, and, what is still more to the point, they cannot be mistaken for any thing else. Others are equally common, and are easily enough seen, but their identity is not so much a matter of course." - Bradford Torrey
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A World Of Green Hills: Observations Of Nature And Human Nature In The Blue Ridge
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Walden (with Introductions by Bradford Torrey and Raymond Macdonald Alden)
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American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best community is one that is built upon on independence and self-reliance. In Thoreau’s best known work, “Walden” we find a classic account of his attempt to live by the principles espoused in this philosophy. Henry David Thoreau spent two years living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, on a woodland property owned by fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau’s day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness. Thoreau’s journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. A journey of self-discovery, “Walden” is Thoreau’s declaration of independence, a manual of self-reliance, for which the author will be forever immortalized. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes introductions by Bradford Torrey and Raymond Macdonald Alden.
Bradford Torrey was a United States ornithologist.
Background
Torrey was born on October 9, 1843 in Weymouth, Massachussets. He was the son of Samuel and Sophronia (Dyer) Torrey. He was a descendant of Lieut. James Torrey who emigrated from England and settled at Scituate, Massachussets, soon after 1640.
Education
He was educated in the public schools of his native town.
Career
After graduating from high school, he worked for a time in a local shoe-factory and taught school for several years. He then went to Boston and, after brief connection with two or three business houses, was for sixteen years employed in the office of the treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
From boyhood a lover of nature and an attentive observer of wild life, it was not until these years in Boston that he became especially interested in the study of birds, and then in putting the results of his observation into literary form. His first published writing was an article, "With the Birds on Boston Common, " which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1883. Two years later his first book, Birds in the Bush, was published.
In 1886 he found highly congenial employment as one of the editors of the Youth's Companion. He was a member of the staff until 1901; his work was the selection and preparation of the entertaining miscellany pages for which that popular weekly was famous. In this occupation he found leisure for continual observation of bird life, not a little travel, and the writing of a succession of essays, sketches, and books, all dealing in the most charming way with his experiences in the fields and woods.
The titles of his published volumes are: A Rambler's Lease (1889), The Foot-path Way (1892), A Florida Sketch Book (1894), Spring Notes from Tennessee (1896), A World of Green Hills (1898), Everyday Birds (1901), Footing it in Franconia (1901), The Clerk of the Woods (1903), Nature's Invitation (1904), Friends on the Shelf (1906), which was a book of literary criticism, and Field Days in California (1913).
He was also the sympathetic editor of the fourteen volumes of the journal of Henry David Thoreau which were published in the twenty-volume Walden edition in 1906. Torrey was not a scientifically trained ornithologist and received no academic recognition. He was, however, as many ornithological authorities have testified, a singularly faithful and accurate field observer, whose careful work has added much to the knowledge of the habits and characteristics of native American birds.
He became perhaps the foremost authority on humming-birds during his lifetime. His books are as far as possible from being handbooks of ornithology. Torrey was first of all an essayist, and his writing has the discursive fluency and whimsical humor of the true essayist. His style is graceful, unassuming, almost conversational. He takes his reader delightfully into his confidence, and reveals to him a personality of rare gentleness and charm. He writes not of birds alone, but of nature in all its aspects of beauty, and his books are as attractive to the general reader as to the bird lover to whom they are primarily addressed.
In his last years he moved, partly for reasons of health, to California. He lived near Santa Barbara, much of the time a solitary life, reminiscent of Thoreau's, in a cabin of which he was the sole occupant. He died October 7, 1912, in a hospital in Santa Barbara.
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Personality
His circle of acquaintance was not large, for he lived much by himself, but his friends found in him a rare and sympathetic personality, and a character of unusual gentleness and purity.