Daniel Boone, exploring the wild Kentucky landscape, was too uneducated to see much of what was there, supposes Aldo Leopold. 'Daniel Boone's reaction depended not only on the quality of what he saw, but on the quality of the mental eye with which he saw it. Ecological science has wrought a change in our mental eye. . . . We may safely say that, as compared with the competent ecologist of the present day, Boone saw only the surface of things. The incredible intricacies of the plant and animal community . . . were as invisible to Daniel Boone as.
