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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial

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John Burroughs
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Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to John Burroughs, based on documented lifetime 1837 to 1921. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938841 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938841 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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