The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries

Gerald Durrell
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man. ✨ Gerald Durrell (1989). The Amateur Naturalist, Alfred A. Knopf
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