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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
George Horace Lorimer
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George Horace Lorimer
Age: 70 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 6
Died: 1937
Died: October 22
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Kentucky
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