MacIntyre, Ferren
Ferren MacIntyre has been a professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, associate at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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We see ourselves as the finale of evolution: from an unbiased point of view we may not even be the most interesting species currently living on our planet. Wilderness, The Edge of Knowledge, 1970.

It is entirely possible that a visitor from a truly advanced civilization would see us as we see baboons: aggressive, successful, obnoxious, and poor neighbors - and ignore us in favor of philosophical discourses with whales. Ibid.

The need to manage nature remains a deep-seated psychological drive. It hits me every time I get my hands on a pair of pruning shears. Snip! (neaten). Snip! (organize). Snip! (manipulate) - but I recognize this as a vestigial urge that no longer serves its original purpose. I can control the impulse and keep my hedges bushy. Ibid.