In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

The line uses a wry, observational exaggeration to critique how institutions manage nature through signage, rules, and risk-avoidance rather than through lived ecological understanding. By suggesting that prohibitions outnumber the animals themselves, it highlights a landscape mediated by human anxiety and administrative control—where the visitor’s experience is shaped less by wildlife than by instructions about wildlife. In Jeremijenko’s broader artistic and critical interests (technology, public participation, environmental systems), the remark can be read as pointing to a paradox of conservation: protecting nonhuman life often produces an environment saturated with human messages, turning “nature” into a regulated exhibit and shifting responsibility from relationship and judgment to compliance.