Wild Places

“Humanity badly needs things that are big and fearsome and homicidally WILD. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we need to preserve those few remaining beasts, places, and forces of nature capable of murdering us with sublime indifference. We need the tiger, Panthera tigris, and the saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, and the grizzly bear, Ursus arctos, and the Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis…to remind us that Homo sapiens isn’t the unassailable zenith of all existence…”

--David Quammen, 1998
Deep Thoughts from Wild Places