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Henry Walter Bates Quotes
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates

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Environmentalist Quotes
Category:
English Environmentalist Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 8, 1825
Date of Death:
February 16, 1892
Nationality:
English
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