“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”

“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”

“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain or terrors animals felt in dying.... The animal also died a second death. Severed from the form in which it had lived, severed from the act that had killed it, it vanished from human memory as one of nature's creatures.”

“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”

“No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man.”

“For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.”