“That most of our ecosystems are no longer rich is beyond debate, and today, most of the surviving remnants of the native flora that formed them have been finished offby development or invaded by alien plant species.”
pg. 10, Suburban Gardens
“If our native insect fauna cannot, or will not, use alien plants for food, then insect populations in areas with many alien plants will be smaller than insect populations in areas with all natives…But because so many animals depend partially or entirely on insect protein for food, a land without insects is a land without most forms of higher life”
pg. 12, Suburban Gardens
“We have excluded other species from our living spaces through thoughtlessness, not through need.”
pg 31, Suburban Gardens