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To one has seen the vast storehouses of utterly unknown material in the great jungle world below the Tropic of Capricorn, botanizing anywhere in the temperate zone though fascinating is rather lacking in excitement ...

— David Fairchild Exploring for Plants (1930)

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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world.

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