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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
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Stanley
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You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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