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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
Naturalist
Writer
Delaware County
New York
Sea
Conquered
Accepting
Freely
Gives
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Bathes
True
Camps
Revels
Nature
Lover
Mercenary
Ends
Woods
Sails
Giving
Rivers
Accepts
Lovers
Seas

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