"Everybody knows that the autumn landscape in the north woods is the land, plus a red maple, plus ruffed grouse. In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre. Yet subtract the grouse and the whole thing is dead."
-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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