Well, dang, Aldo Leopold could write!

"We inherit the carth, but within the limits of the soil and the plant succession we also rebuild the earth, without plan, without knowledge of its properties, and without understanding of the increasingly coarse and powerful tools which sciencehas placed at our disposal. Weare remodelling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel."
- Aldo Leopold The Conservation Ethic

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