I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

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• Peter Beard:

  Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

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• Peter Beard:

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• Peter Beard:

  My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

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• Peter Beard:

  In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

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