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Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

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Sigurd F. Olson
Age: 82 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 4
Died: 1982
Died: January 13
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