> "Brenner, Bob" wrote:
>
> Every excursion into the
> "natural" world is prefaced with a discourse about "taking only
> pictures and leaving only footprints".

* we used to say, along this line: "Take nothing but specimens, leave
nothing but feces." "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but
footprints," means "Trample everything down in the vicinity of a
selected photographic subject."

fred.
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