This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. - Rachel Carson

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E. B. WHITE

"Such plants are "weeds" only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals."