We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.
I'm afraid of animals.
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.