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"I like to look on plants as sentient beings, which live and enjoy their lives" 

 Richard Spruce 
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 Plate from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur 
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https://publicdomainreview.org/2015/10/14/richard-spruce-and-the-trials-of-victorian-bryology/?utm_content=bufferd215b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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