Violent
nature : resilient life
Amazonas
is "one of the great surviving wildernesses of the world, stretching
500 kilometers…"
(3)
"This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms -- folded them into its genes and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady."
(15)
the
greatest bank of biological differences lies in the tropical rain forests
some disturbance assists in increasing the assets of biodiversity
too much disturbance diminishes the assets of biological diversity
more than 60% of the diversity of rain forests exists in the canopy above the floor
