Reading essays by Aldo Leopold [0] really changed my perspective a bit. He has an essay from 1943 called "What Is a Weed?" [1], and I don't think before reading

Reading essays by Aldo Leopold [0] really changed my perspective a bit. He has an essay from 1943 called "What Is a Weed?" [1], and I don't think before reading it that I'd ever contemplated that question in any depth. He argues that it is a false premise "that every wild species occasionally harmful to agriculture is, by reason of that fact, to be blacklisted for general persecution [1]." He also argues that it's backwards to focus so much on weed control rather than weed prevention--many times weeds are the effect of some underlying cause (land misuse, etc.). Anyway I really dig Leopold and his philosophy, if you've never heard of him give A Sand County Almanac [2] a try. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=-StPpe04gS8C&pg=PA306&lpg=PA306 https://books.google.com/books?id=-StPpe04gS8C&pg=PA306&lpg=... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac