"All such experiments are first steps toward wholly new concepts of insect control which the miracles of electronics may some day make a reality" (288)
"The farmlands of modern agriculture are highly artificial, unlike anything nature ever conceived" (293)
"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the conveniece of man." (297)
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