Any fool...

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed--chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones."

John Muir, from "The American Forests," Atlantic Monthly, 1897.

"I will never forget the day. It was June 7, 1976. A tigress I had named Padmini, after my daughter, was seen by me with four cubs! I was wonderstruck and followed this family day and night. Initially, the tigress was unhappy with my presence, but eventually she began to trust me and seemed to treat me as a friend!"

~ Fateh Singh Rathore describing the first time that he saw tiger cubs in Ranthambhore.

(Photo: Ranthambhore tigress, Govind Sagar Bharadwaj)

Fateh's Ecstasy

~ August 10, 1938 - March 1, 2011


(Photo: Raghu Rai/Magnum Photos)