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The fox is always helped by an expanding food base, and the fox performs the service of weeding out the sick and infirm, thus improving the average health of the farm. I don’t know why chickens rail against foxes- over the long term, everyone gains!
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The fox is always helped by an expanding food base, and the fox performs the service of weeding out the sick and infirm, thus improving the average health of the farm. I don’t know why chickens rail against foxes- over the long term, everyone gains!
Actually, that’s George Eliot, in her novel Felix Holt
In the context of the wild, Ostralion, sure. In the context of a land dominated by farms, the fox is vermin.
I think you’ll find it was T S Eliot, not George.
Ian
No. Wrongly attributed to TSE all over the web. It’s George Eliot. I quote:
“Politics, of course,” said Felix. “There’s an election coming…. ” etc.
Felix Holt by George Eliot. Page 60 of the Oxford World’s Classics paperback edition 1998