The prairie is a community. It is not just a landscape or the name of an area on a map, but a dynamic alliance of living plants, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, and micro-organisms all depending on each other. When too few of them remain, their community loses its vitality and they perish together. The prairie teaches us that our strength is in our neighbours. The way to destroy a prairie is to cut it up into tiny pieces, spaced so that they have no communication.
Theodore
Roosevelt