"I now suspect that just as a deer herd Lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer." That's a great quote, right there.
Yes, as you both mention, great prose and great insight.
One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and hard hitting. Obviously because we so often seem to fail at taking the long term and/or ecological and/or interconnected system view.
whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous short piece from A Sand County Almanac, Thinking Like a Mountain:
https://ia600707.us.archive.org/6/items/ThinkingLikeAMountai...