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Hugh Iltis Quotes

1925–2016 Czech Republic

Hugh Iltis (April 7, 1925 – December 19, 2016) was an American environmentalist and professor of botany.

Czech Republic
Biologists
Botanists
Environmentalists

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The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues.

The classification of biodiversity is the job of taxonomists who, born as packrats and inspired by a compulsion to explore and collect the world's biological riches, will risk life and limb to solve the great puzzles of biogeography, ethnobotany, and evolution.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hugh Iltis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.