Whales are the wet, sad teddies of the sea
It's a rum business, dealing with monsters. In one bit of Australia human beings are tenderly helping stranded whales back into the sea. Just a few miles away - anyway, as these things go in Australia - sharks are tenderly helping themselves to human beings with unprecedented frequency.
That's the wild for you. In one aspect, it is pitiful, delicate and helpless and people long to give it the best care they possibly can. In another aspect, it frightens the bejesus out of us. Both aspects are inescapable; both aspects are an essential part of our love for wild things: essential parts of being human.… Seguir leyendo »