Investigation continues into fatal tiger attack at S.F. zoo

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/26/MNABU4Q5T.DTL

In the wildest nature, there is...

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work. - Henry David Thoreau

Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 337, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Wildest Nature

Wednesday, December 26, 2007