The well-known American biologist Edward Wilson, irked by conservationists 'one-sided interest in large animals, once spoke out to say that "the small things run the world." He pointed out that in the whole cyclical biological system, without producer organisms, the consumer organisms would be in big trouble. But without the consumers, the world would go on just as happily.
美國生物界知名學者威爾森曾披只重視大型動物的保育界逆鱗，倡言「小東西支撐世界」，指出整個生物循環系統裡，沒有生產者，消費者問題可大了，但即使沒有消費者，這個世界的運作還是會一樣愉快。