Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it.
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Silent Spring—I (16 June1962), subsequently Silent Spring; Exact wording and attribution checked. Complete sentence from the original publication; modernizing historical wording would change the quotation.
- Silent Spring—I (16 June1962), subsequently Silent Spring
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