Aldo Leopold was ahead of his time with his realization about ecosystems. Leopold realized that to survive, all things must live in a perfect balance. People often did not realize what taking out one organism could do, or how it could ruin a symbiotic relationship.

In the article, "Think Like a Mountain"a man is describing his thoughts and experiences about killing wolves. Leopold writes about how wolves were being executed to keep them from eating live stock. With the execution of all the wolves the population of the deer skyrocketed. Slowly the deer began eat all of the vegetation. With all of the plants missing the deer began to starve and die. In the end all the wolves, deer, and plants were dead, just from killing the wolves.

My response to this article is that I am surprised how much or world is in balance. Even if just one part of our ecosystem goes missing, it will have a huge impact on the rest of our world. with this idea in mind, it showed me just how much we need to respect each life form because we all have a place in this world.