"The animals I have encountered in my wilderness wanderings have been reluctant to reveal all the things about them I would like to know. The animal that impresses me most, the one I find myself liking more and more, is the Grizzly. No sight encountered in the wilds is quite so stirring as those massive, clawed tracks pressed into mud or snow. His is a dignity and power matched by no other in the North American wilderness. To share a mountain with him for a while is a privilege and an adventure like no other"
John McPhee - Coming into the Country
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
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Farley Mowat,
Never Cry Wolf
