As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference. (Stephen Jay Gould)

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

Stephen Jay Gould

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