
So is the butterfly—not because it is good for food or good for making medicine or bad because it eats our orange trees. It is important in itself, as a part of the economy of nature.
Marston Bates · The source reads: “We remain important, you and I and all mankind. But so is the butterfly—not because it is good for food or good for making medicine or bad because it eats our orange trees. It is important in itself, as a part of the economy of nature.” · The Forest and the Sea (1960), ch. 1
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