Therefore, it was a very strange thing to see this fence planted across the middle of the forest, as if to say “on this side is one ecosystem” and “on this side is a different ecosystem.” Human beings are fond of doing this, but in the great timescale and reality of the natural world, a fence is an entirely artificial and temporary boundary, like a line drawn in the wet sand at the verge of the ocean, telling the waves they can come no farther.
