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Except in most of the ocean, the wilderness is in retreat, or is being changed in character.
‘And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hands of the potter; so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.’
Jeremiah xviii. 4
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Elton, C.S. (2020). Chapter Nine The Conservation of Variety. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_18
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