For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is that he is able to rely on certain reflex actions which he himself has implanted in them. He will flatter himself at times on the grasp of animal psychology which has brought him the love of the dog and the purr of the cat. Anonymous
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and...
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
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Tahir Shah
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand,...
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Eric Dinerstein
The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.
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Tahir Shah
