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40_192 Berkeley and scorn at his hereditay foe. The coyote was here first. He naturally resents being run off his huntng grounds. He did not ask the white man to bring in sheep, but since he has, there is only one recourse and that is war. Domestic sheep disturb the balance of nature. The coyote has also his place in the balance of nature. With the Red Indian the coyote had a working relation, a modus vivendi. The Indian recognized this and adopted, with a certain high mindness, the Coyote into his colony of gods. The white man, ruthless, rampant, destructive, skinning the earth down to the bone wherever he goes and leaving it lifeless, with him there is only one thing and that is war. The grizzly has succumbed - but not yet the Coyote. The coyote may succumb and pass out. Did you ever notice gigantic anthill on the plain or |
40_193 May 1924 in the forest? That all vegetation and other animal life has been bruhsed out of the area. So man, wherever, he goes, establishes his gigantic anthills with its runways and excreta, poisoning and exterminating the primitive wild life. Man is not "sporting" towards the animals. Read John Davidson's "Runnable Stag." Three hundred gentlemen able to ride", Yes 300 men, 300 deerhounds all in full pursuit of one poor stag! The cry of the coyote is the last call on the frontier of the wilderness. The feat of the young men by Kipling tells how much of longing there is for wildness, for the wilderness, for the untamed places of the earth, where species are still living in a natural condition. The yelp of the coyote is the war-cry of these places, the places of the Red gods. Man has not changed much in all the ages; his brain capacity has |
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