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The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Hal Borland

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Hal Borland
Age: 77 †
Born: 1900
Born: May 14
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
Writer
Never
Save
Quarter
Mountain
Conservation
Tomorrow
Quarters
Environment
Threatened
Another
Permanent
Nature
Woods
Woodland
Today
Unhappy
Irreplaceable
Thing
Environmental
Priceless

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