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Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

Loren Eiseley

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Loren Eiseley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 3
Died: 1977
Died: July 9
Anthropologist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Science Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Exist
Continued
Today
Flowers
Without
Diversity
Would
Fruit
Men
Bird
Gift
Infinite
Unrecognizable
Flower
Fruits

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