I read three essays written by John Burroughs.  All were written between 1900 and 1916.  The essays are reflections upon  nature.  Frankly, they should be mandatory reading for every high school child in America.  They are, "the Art of Seeing Things" 1908; "The Grist for the Gods" (1908) from "Leaf and Tendril" and "Nature Near Home."  If you ever get a chance, find them and read them.  I think you can find all of these essays in Bill McKibben's book, "American Earth."

They are most profound.  "Grist for the Gods" is a very Taoist, Buddhist reflection on the nature of our existence.  It is most appropriate for our society today.  Burroughs had a cottage in the Berkshires.  I wonder where it was?  Consider this passage. "But let not care and humdrum deaden us to wonders and the mysteries amid which we live, nor the splendors and the glories.  We need not translate ourselves in imagination to some other sphere or state of being to find the marvelous, the divine, the transcendent;  we need not postpone our day of wonder and appreciation to some  future time and condition.  The true inwardness of this gross visible world, hanging like an apple on the bough of the great cosmic tree, and swelling with all the juices and potencies of life, transcends anything we have dreamed of terrestrial abodes.  It is because of these things, because of the vitality, spirituality, oneness, and immanence of the universe as revealed by science, its conditions of transcending time and space, without  youth and without age, neither beginning nor ending, neither material nor spiritual, but forever passing from one into the other, that I was early and deeply impressed by Walt Whitman's lines, '[t]here was never any more inception than there is now, nor anymore youth or age than there is now, and will never be any more perfection than there is now;  nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."  And Burroughs added, "[a]nd may I add,  nor any more creation than there is now, nor any more miracles, or glories, or wonders, or immortality, or judgment days, than there are now.  And we shall never be nearer God and spiritual and transcended things than we are now.  The babe in its mother's womb is not nearer its mother than we are to the invisible sustaining and mothering powers of the universe, and its spiritual entities, every moment of our lives."  John Burroughs.  Wow!

What a way to express the concept of non-dualism.  this passage hits all three of the concepts.  Mindfulness, impermanence, and interbeing.  Thich Naht Hahn teaches this.  John Burroughs wrote about these things a hundred years ago.  And so it is.