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Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
Albert Hofmann
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Albert Hofmann
Age: 102 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 11
Died: 2008
Died: April 29
Chemist
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I know LSD I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
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When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
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Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
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