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A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.
A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.
Bears and lightning do as they please and can strike in the same spot as much as they choose, despite what experts tell us.
When Juniper’s body was found, the hunters went out to find her killer—the brave men of the tribe ventured out to defend their own. They may have never met her, but she was still part of the human race. No other animal draws boundaries as far out as we do when it comes to protecting other members of our group.
Great whites don’t try to hide their kills, mainly because tuna don’t form police forces and seek revenge.
The only way to stop being a victim is to think like a killer. And I don’t think you have that in you.”
“Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to. You divorce your wife because you don’t love her. You murder her because you hate her.”
When I look up through hazy eyes, I get my first view of him twenty yards away. My initial reaction isn’t terror or shock. It’s awe. Joe is enormous. He’s clad in body armor from head to toe, and his face mask is a metal shield with narrow slits and war paint. Across his Kevlar chest is a necklace of bear claws. At his waist I see the stainless steel metal claws, waiting to be unleashed.
