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Circling the Sun - Paula McLain

Denys was most himself in wild places. Through a pair of smudgy field glasses, he could gauge a set of kudu horns, or the weight of still hanging ivory. He knew how to shoot anything, with no miscalculation, and could skin an animal so quickly and with such precision there was almost no blood in it. But he was just as keen not to shoot or kill, not if he didn’t have to, using his camera instead. Photography was a new idea then, and he believed it had the power to change hunting, the sporting idea of it. Hunters could have Africa without taking any of it away—without ruining it.

 

How I wish this could be true, that we would have learned by now. But then I think of Cecil the Lion. Sometimes I think humans will never learn until all that is wild and beautiful is gone.