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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Habitat
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Pageants
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