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If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Farmer
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Psychologist
Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
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