The Beast in the Garden Quotes

“auriferous”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“Such efforts are to be applauded, but the most critical element of wildlife management in twenty-first-century America will be modifying the behavior of the most pervasive species of all. Reducing conflicts between people and wild animals will require controls on human actions: where we build our homes, how we landscape our yards, the way we dispose of our trash and house our pets.”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“In fact, if one considers the actions of serial cannibal Daniel Blue during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859, the state can boast more documented cases of people being eaten by other people than by mountain lions. Yet,”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“(Lycanthropy,”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“lacustrine”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“The maneless male lions—eventually shot by a railroad engineer, Colonel John H. Patterson (portrayed by Val Kilmer, Boulder’s Hamlet, in the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness)—now reside, stuffed, at Chicago’s Field Museum, where one can purchase souvenir mugs, posters, and T-shirts displaying the killers in an innocuous, colorful, Lion King–style graphic. Leopards,”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“crepuscular,”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“extirpated”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“Ecologists call the zone of transition between habitats (for instance, forest and prairie) an ecotone. America is becoming one vast ecotone where civilization and nature intermingle.”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

“Manifest Destiny, industrialization, and a twentyfold growth in population since 1830 have converted the United States into a land of megalopolises and superhighways, a nation in which “sprawl” figures in political debates, a country where, outside of Alaska, it is impossible to place oneself more than twenty miles from a road. (The most remote spot in the lower forty-eight states, by the distance-from-a-road standard, is in the southeastern part of Yellowstone National Park.)”
― David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature