"It is time to dispense with the duty of optimism. It’s too much like hard work and, besides, it makes us look soft in the head. When conservation puts on its well-mannered public face, it has – we have – a tendency to default to an idiot optimism."
"It is time to dispense with the duty of optimism. It’s too much like hard work and, besides, it makes us look soft in the head. When conservation puts on its well-mannered public face, it has – we have – a tendency to default to an idiot optimism."