خلق اللهُ الإنسانَ، وخلق له العالمَ ليعيش فيه، وأظنّه خلق العالمَ الذي كان سيرغب في العيش فيه لو كان إنسانًا: الأرضَ يمشي عليها، والغاباتِ الكبيرة، والأشجارَ والماء، والصيدَ يعيش فيها. ولعلّه لم يضع في الإنسان رغبةَ الصيد والقتل، لكنني أظنه علم أنها ستكون فيه، وأن الإنسان سيعلّمها نفسه، إذ لم يكن قد بلغ بعدُ أن يكون إلهًا.

“God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.”William Faulkner — A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena (2012)