It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"

Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

Le storie sono fra tutte le cose le più selvagge. Le storie inseguono, predano e mordono.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.