"At a time when ecology and genetics are each racing swiftly towards one new concept after another, yet with little contact of thought between the two subjects, there may be some advantage in surveying, if only synoptically and in preliminary fashion, the largely uncharted territory between them." (Charles S Elton, 1938)
"If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animals and plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?" (Lewis Mumford, "The Culture of Cities", 1938)
"That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics." (Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac", 1949)
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