The environment

An interesting thought about ecology:

The naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote more than 30 years ago: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds," Leopold wrote. "Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well — and does not want to be told otherwise."

Dr. Gibeau, ecologist, in reference to the proposed corridor for animals from Northwest Canada to the Northwest of the USA

"People who come here are just so awestruck by the scenery that they cannot understand its ecological problems" he said. "They say, 'How can there be trouble here?' But once you peel back the veneer, this place is like most other places, a human-dominated system."

We have a problem here now in Germany with a lack of bees due to the mono-culture of farms etc. I have not seen a single bee in my garden this spring which means that my apple trees may not produce any apples although they are blooming furiously....