@PeterAranyi Hi Peter, don't know if this article via @mala pushes your buttons, I found it quite a paradigm shift:

“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.” We have tinkered, lost some of the most important pieces, and tried to put many where they don’t belong.

http://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/