We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets … - Karen Elizabeth Gordon - Quotesmemo.com

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Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

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