#but John Burroughs was right that some of your descriptions feel very human and somewhat fantastical

[lepurcinus]

Reading these old naturalist books makes me feel like a time traveler.

I really appreciate what they contain and it is comforting to see that even in those days there was a love for nature. But it's just that some things and thoughts feel so archaic.

Of course, it was the time when hating wolves and wishing them extinction was the law, and where sport hunting was not even regulated. So seeing men talk so normally about pointing a gun at an animal feels perfectly understandable.

That and how very humanized it feels no matter how much you say it's not. Reflected in the mention of human actions compared to animals, attributing certain thoughts to them both positive and negative and the obvious preference over mammals and birds over nasty, evil reptiles.