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GONZO WEEKLY #96: Jon meets Tony Palmer

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Felix Dennis died earlier this year. He was a remarkable man and one of the most important people to have come out of the counter-culture of the late-'60s and early-'70s. Indeed he can probably be described as being the person who came out of said counter-culture who had the most successful publishing career of all. More importantly, unlike many of his peers, who will remain nameless, he continued doing projects – such as the Heart of England Forest, whose mission statement is: “"the plantation, re-plantation, conservation and establishment of trees for the benefit of the public, together with the education of the public by the promulgation of knowledge and the appreciation of trees".” which are totally in line with the ethos of the hippy movement then and now. According to Sean Coughlan, writing in 2006, Dennis told him: “I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20