Quotes from L. David Mech

The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

As I wrote in 2013, "In the medical field, when a threatening condition is detected that is not immediately causing distress, physicians often counsel 'watchful waiting'. . . . [T]he precautionary principle would weigh heavily in favor of non-intervention because once intervention is imposed, that condition can never be undone, whereas non-intervention can always be countered by intervention.