The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
I think we're much harder on ourselves than other people are. This is not a unique situation here... But I never liked the 'Celtic Tiger' as a phrase.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
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