“In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.”

“In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.”

“One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.”

“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”

“She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”