Ms. Marris's book goes further, challenging the very idea of a balance of nature.

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Another is Emma Marris, author of the critically acclaimed Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.

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Marris hopes to help those who have less then her, insistent that she and her community will survive.

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Next door, Carla Marris, who has lived in her Terrytown home for 12 years, returned to her house Sunday, a day earlier than authorities allowed, and said she was not leaving again.

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In her remarkable new book "The Rambunctious Garden, " Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.

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Marris, 51 "going on 101, " grew emotional as she spoke of her parents, both in their 80s, who recently had to purchase a trailer in Prairieville while they waited to find out about their house in Port Sulphur, south of New Orleans.

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