Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
This "let's leave the countryside to the animals" idea perhaps looks well and even beautiful from inside city limits
I've always felt that the city should administer only the city, and the country likewise...the two mindsets and lifestyles are more often at odds than in agreement.

And there is no reason people and predators can't co-exist in the same area, but I've decided that the sad truth of the matter is that if they go unmenaced, the predators that once learned to avoid humans start exploring the idea of eating us, and eventually do so.
Quite right. Posted in my neighborhood are signs instructing the general public to be aggressive toward curious coyotes and foxes, as both will hunt cats, small dogs, small children, and in some cases adults. Being crazier (aggressive and proactive) than the animal is sometimes just as necessary as being smarter (avoidance) or better prepared (reactive).

the woman whose daughter was too good to fight back and was killed by coyotes in Nova Scotia asked that the same coyotes just be left alone to continue their "normal behaviour" (as she thought) but if her wishes were put into practice she was a greater danger to humanity than 1000 coyotes.
Yeah, we have those people here, too. At least it's a confirmation that we're all human, I suppose. Boulder is overflowing with "bubble people" who hold romantically idealized notions of The Outdoors.
Nature has rules, and standing still to get eaten is not one of them- not even the Buddha would have said that.
Quite right.