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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Conservation
Destroy
Destruction
Environment
Society
Nature
Ecology

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