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Today, living in a primarily industrial and technological world, it has been too easy for man to destroy nature in the name of progress. Something vitally important to our existence has been forgotten. I seem to have accepted the tast of trying to remind people of what we are in danger of losing. We are not destroying the world; we are destroying ourselves. The world, as Lewis Thomas has pointed out, will continue to exist in a different form; with our necessary environment to survive gone, we will be extinct. Marjory Stoneman Douglas recognized this awesome problem in the 1920’s. Since then she has fought to save the Everglades, the wondrous place where life begins. I am grateful to her for preserving this primal environment so that I could experience it, and make it an integral part of my life. Dedication for Marjorie Stoneman Douglas for my Exhibition of Southern Swamps Berenice D'Vorzon |
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