Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
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