Stone makes a statement as true today as it was then, the reason why conservationists can never let down their guard: “As one menace is disposed of, … - Scott Weidensaul

Natural systems are like those hollow Russian dolls, layer nested within layer within layer, always hiding a new riddle beneath the last one. Figuring out how they work as a herculean task, one with which humans have been grappling for a relatively short time. If you want clear-cut problems and need solutions, try geometry. This is ecology and it doesn’t get any more complex and messier than this. But we’re learning.

Of course, for environmental havoc, no organism can quite compare to humans.

It is a prairie’s gentle deceit that you think you see everything there is in a single, sweeping glance, when in fact you see very little at all, even if you spend a lifetime looking.