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76 Words on the Destruction of Nature by H.S.Pepoon

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  To find out more about the "Green First Responders" - or whatever they'll be called - contact  Jonathan Sabath  or  Stephen Packard . Or fill out  this form ? “ The Author urges upon every user of The Flora that we ever keep in mind the perishable nature of the wild folk we study and that, in so far as we have power and influence, we exert both to the conservation of all of our natural heritage that remains to us, never needlessly maiming nor destroying one of our floral or arboreal citizens, but ever protecting them with zealous care from ruthless hands or ignorant caprice. ” Also, a few more bonus words. First, on finding a stand of pink ladyslippers ( Cypripedium acule ) on a field trip: “We paused, drinking our fill and passed on, not one person violating the unwritten law of the orchid lover. An hour later, as we ate our lunch on the margin of the swamp, a party of robust young men and women from (name withheld) College came along, and each gloried in the rare s