predation

"The Amazon rainforest has been described as the greatest natural battlefield on Earth, because there’s more life here than anywhere else, which means that everything here is fighting for survival."

"If you get bitten by a bushmaster, they say you don’t rush and try and save your own life, you try to savor what’s around you, look around at the world, smoke your last cigarette, call your mom, that’s it."

"There’s no such thing as an aggressive snake once you get outside of an anaconda and reticulated python."

"If we can’t protect the crown jewel, the best thing, the most beautiful part, then we’re really, really missing the point."

"Conservation seems ridiculous. You’re begging people to not pollute the things that keep them alive. It’s almost silly at a point."

"The uncontacted tribes said, no. They had their six-foot-long longbows, seven-foot-long arrows with giant bamboo tips. And they moved further back into the forest. And they said, we will not be conquered."

"I see nature as God. I see the religions as different cultural manifestations of the same truth, the same creative force."