A sanctuary may be defined as a place where Man is passive and the rest of Nature active. Till quite recently Nature
had her own sanctuaries, where man either did not go at all or only as a tool-using animal in comparatively small
numbers. But now, in this machinery age, there is no place left where man cannot go with overwhelming forces at
his command. He can strangle to death all the nobler wild life in the world to-day. To-morrow he certainly will have
done so, unless he exercises due foresight and self-control in the mean time.
There is not the slightest doubt that birds and mammals are now being killed off much faster than they can breed.
And it is always the largest and noblest forms of life that suffer most. The whales and elephants, lions and eagles, go.
The rats and flies, and all mean parasites, remain. This is inevitable in certain cases. But it is wanton killing off that I
am speaking of tonight. Civilized man begins by destroying the very forms of wild life he learns to appreciate most
when he becomes still more civilized. The obvious remedy is to begin conservation at an earlier stage, when it is
easier and better in every way, by enforcing laws for close seasons, game preserves, the selective protection of
certain species, and sanctuaries.
I have just defined a sanctuary as a place where man is passive and the rest of Nature active. But this general
definition is too absolute for any special case. The mere fact that man has to protect a sanctuary does away with his
purely passive attitude. Then, he can be beneficially active by destroying pests and parasites, like bot-flies or
mosquitoes, and by finding antidotes for diseases like the epidemic which periodically kills off the rabbits and thus
starves many of the carnivora to death. But, except in cases where experiment has proved his intervention to be
beneficial, the less he upsets the balance of Nature the better, even when he tries to be an earthly Providence.
1. What is the threat that the man has to face in the future?
2. Why does the author say that a sanctuary is a place where man is passive and the rest of the nature active?
3. What is happening to the birds and animals?
4. What is the most appropriate central idea of this passage?
5. What is the tone of the Author as expressed in the passage?
Answers
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