"In every Man's Life we may need some lesson. What may be read in mine? ...Life is...A day's labor...on God's earth, under the sun and the stars with other laborers, where we may think and sing and rejoice as we work." - letterpress caption from...
John Burroughs holding two woodchucks on the steps of the porch of his Woodchuck Lodge. "I call my place Woodchuck Lodge, as I tell my friends, because we are beleagured by these rodents" - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
"I was not born out of time, but in good time. The men I seemed to need most were nearly all my contemporaries." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
Photograph of Woodchuck Lodge with person standing on porch. "This boon is mine when I go to my little gray farmhouse...The peace of the hills is about me and upon me..." - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
John Burroughs sitting in a rocking chair on a porch at Woodchuck Lodge. Hand crafted writing table is visible in background. "To sit on one's rustic porch...is to get a taste of the peace and comfort of the summer hills" - letterpress caption from...
"Woodchuck Lodge, summer home of naturalist John Burroughs at Roxbury, N.Y., a National Historic Landmark" - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.
