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“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.”

Children Progress Parents Ruins Ecology

Book:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these the rewilders quietly voiced a sad and stinging reply. The most dangerous experiment is already underway. The future most to be feared is the one now dictated by the status quo. In vanquishing our most fearsome beasts from the modern world, we have released worse monsters from the compound. They come in disarmingly meek and insidious forms, in chewing plagues of hoofed beasts and sweeping hordes of rats and cats and second-order predators. They come in the form of denuded seascapes and barren forests, ruled by jellyfish and urchins, killer deer and sociopathic monkeys. They come as haunting demons of the human mind. In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.”

Nature Wilderness Ecology Extinction Rewilding Predators Wild Animals

Book:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Source: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators