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Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.

E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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