Post by apmaurosr on Apr 12, 2005 5:12:34 GMT -5
“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation – these are normal endings of the stately and beautiful creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness; although all they would have to do would be to look at the birds in the winter woods, or even at the insects on a cold morning or cold evening. Life is hard and cruel for all lower creatures, and for man also in what the sentimentalists call a “state of nature”. The savage of to-day shows us what the fancied age of gold of our ancestors was really like; it was an age when hunger, cold, violence, and iron cruelty were the ordinary accompaniments of life”. Teddy Roosevelt
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