" Is this where they will be when they are no more among us? On this savannah in the sleep of men and women? Will children, in a thousands years, dream of the cheetah, of the elephant, as children now dream of dragons? Mammals began in the time of the dinosaurs. That's why the dragon is so strong an image to us: the first mammals, the first warm blooded creatures, the first capable of love as we know it, as we and the chimpanzee and the tiger know it, those first mammals' brains were seared so deeply by the image of the enormous dinosaurs that even millions of years of evolution later that image lived in the human dream as dragons - lived thus before archeologists began to unearth the fossils. So one day we will find the giraffe on the savannah of dream. "

― Michael Ventura , The Zoo Where You're Fed to God