And, speaking as one who gets enraged when squirrels eat my tulip bulbs, I can only imagine how horticulturists feel when an orangutan eats or breaks everything green in sight. I have always been impressed with the range of skills required of horticulturists. Like it or not, horticulturists compete with Sierra Club calendars and the Discovery Channel. If used artfully, that palette can create not only a Tennessee mountain forest or an Illinois wetland, but the urge to conserve them as well. In perhaps a broader sense, horticulturists deliver the vital message that animals and landscapes are interdependent.
False distinctions begin to fade and diversity, rather than isolation, becomes the message.