What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

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Earliest instance of this quote found on google books is the 1989 book Forest primeval: the natural history of an ancient forest by Chris Maser, but there it appears to be Maser's own thought (see p. 230 followed by a different supposed Gandhi quote).

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