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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world

Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
World
Wildness
Preservation
Wilderness

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