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- I’m Phil Gates, a botanist at Durham University in the UK and a Guardian Country Diarist. I have been fascinated by natural history since primary school days and with the microscopic world since my parents gave me my first microscope, when I was 12 years old. The magic of making personal discoveries about the natural world has never worn off.
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