Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals by Anna Krien

Author:Anna Krien [Krien, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2012-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

Who is he [Roosevelt] to write, “I don’t believe that some of these nature-writers know the heart of the wild things”? I find after carefully reading two of his big books that every time he gets near the heart of a wild thing he invariably puts a bullet through it.

Roosevelt had set aside nearly 150 million acres of forests, established over fifty game reserves, doubled the number of national parks, and among his numerous legacies was the Grand Canyon. And yet, as Long pointed out in his letter, the president went “into the wilderness with dogs, horses, guides, followers, men servants, reporters, and cameramen.” His kills required an audience.

And bizarrely, Roosevelt’s loathing of so-called anthropomorphism didn’t seem to extend to his own writing. In The Wilderness Hunter, he wrote of an elk bull as

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