José Miguel’s Reviews > The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World > Status Update

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damaged inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell or make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business; or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.