" As Theodore Roosevelt observed in his safari diary, "Death by cold, death by starvation - these are the 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." The problem with this outlook is that is obscures our own singular capacity to make choices, for good or evil.... it sees in nature's violence an invitation to compound nature's violence. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy