"Sometimes we rationalize that it's enough if a place is undeveloped and presents us with a postcard-perfect landscape. Since wild animals are seldom seeen, it's easy not to notice their absence. But each missing plant or animal, seemingly insignificant in itself, creates a vacuum over time. What we perceived as wild is no longer so. It is something less. We are left with a beautiful landscape that was once so much more." -- Bev Doolittle