Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet, University of Chicago Press, 2013.Remember:

“… first that the natural world is considerably more resilient than I had thought, and that damaged and degraded ecosystems can rebuild a great deal of their complex webs of species, communities and ecological processes, if we give them half a chance to do so:

and second, that human beings can assist in beneficially managing this restoration process, and that in so doing we may restore our own relationship to nature.” (p. 2)