“That biological jack-of-all-trades called ecologist tries to be and do all these things. Needless to say, he does not succeed.”

—  Aldo Leopold

" The Deer Swath http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0799&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=L" [1948]; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 127.
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