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I once visited a very good school where the headmaster concentrated on getting his pupils interested in running a large vegetable garden. It was a fine garden and the children were obviously enjoying their craft. I asked the master if he had time to tell them anything about animals and he answered: ‘Oh yes, I teach them that animals are pests!’ This is the understandable point of view of a practical man looking at a limited project; but quite different from that of Robert Browning when he wrote:
I am earth’s native:
No rearranging it!
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Elton, C.S. (1958). The Reasons for Conservation. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7214-9_8
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