PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Simpson, Thomas B.
TI  - A Science of Land Individuals
AID  - 10.3368/er.27.2.115
DP  - 2009 Jun 01
TA  - Ecological Restoration
PG  - 115--121
VI  - 27
IP  - 2
4099  - http://er.uwpress.org/content/27/2/115.short
4100  - http://er.uwpress.org/content/27/2/115.full
AB  - The pragmatist—taking note of the special case, observing and analyzing every detail—is inclined to regard as an encumbrance those things that stem from and lead back to an idea. In his way he feels at home in the labyrinth and takes no interest in the thread that would guide him, not only more rapidly but all the way through. . . . On the other hand, a man of wider horizons is all too inclined to disdain detail and to reduce to a deadening generality what possesses vitality only as a particular. (Goethe 1831)