NAture Wars

Feeding wild birds is, in essence, a form of wildlife management- some say use– in which participants manipulate the natural world to create outcomes they want- in this case, using food to lure birds into viewing range” (234).

It all depends on how you see it. Feeding birds can have the effect of introducing massively more amounts of seed into an environment than was ever intended, or natural, and there are averse impacts that your average outdoor enthusiast could never have seen coming.

Walden

“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense?… While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will any not endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?” (353).