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Territories in the wild are large not as a matter of taste but of necessity. In a zoo, we do for animals what we have done for ourselves with houses: we bring together in a small space what in the wild is spread out.
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
It is interesting to note that the lion that is the most amenable to the circus trainer’s tricks is the one with the lowest social standing in the pride, the omega animal.
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness—how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!”)
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
