“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.” ChildrenProgressParentsRuinsEcology Book:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators