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By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

Gerald Durrell

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Gerald Durrell
Age: 69 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
Biologist
Conservationist
Naturalist
Presenter
Writer
Zookeeper
Tatanagar
Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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