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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth
century is not television, or radio, but rather the
complexity of the land organism. Only those who know
the most about it can appreciate how little we know
about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who
says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the
land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is
good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota,
in the course of aeons, has built something we like but
do not understand, then who but a fool would discard
seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel
is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
- Aldo Leopold |