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The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Richard Evans Schultes

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Richard Evans Schultes
Age: 86 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 12
Died: 2001
Died: April 10
Anthropologist
Author
Botanist
Ethnobotanist
Boston
Massachusetts
Schultes
R.E.
R. E. Schult.
R. E. Schultes
Richard E. Schultes
Plants
Disappear
Faster
Plant
Knowledge
Botanical
Even
Disappearing
Psychedelic
Indians

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