Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, OCwas a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deerand Never Cry Wolf. The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 May 1921
CityBelleville, Canada
CountryCanada
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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.
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.