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William Beebe (1877–1962) was an American naturalist, explorer, and author. Beebe wrote many popular books of his expeditions, some of which became best-sellers in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also a regular contributor to the National Geographic Magazine. .

"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can be again. "

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