I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." ... It is a common understanding of ecology that overshoots degrades the carrying capacity of the environment." ... Herschel Elliott concludes, "All behavior which is either required is system sensitive whenever it involves the use of land or the transfer of matter or energy. ... The first necessary condition for acceptable behavior is to avoid the trag...

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