«Nature flings treasures abroad, puffs them with open lips along on every breeze, piles up lavish layers of them in the free open air [...] the abounding products are beyond the power of all the human race to devour.» Or so it seemed to Richard Jefferies, (1848-1887), who concluded: «There is no natural lack. Whenever there is lack among us it is from artificial causes, which intelligence should remove.» Unfortunately, a lack of intelligence has had a tendency to materialize along the way. The 'removal team' has become unreliable...so to speak!