David Quammen Quote

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

Monster Of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind (ed. Random House, 2014) - ISBN: 9781448163199