Farley Mowat Quotes

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I have my own vision of the high North. I envision it being transformed, restored, into a symbol of sanity in a world where madness is becoming the accepted mode of action.

Farley Mowat
For Newfoundlanders living by and upon it, the sea is the ultimate reality. They accept it as their master, for they know they will never master it. The sea is there. It is their destiny. It gives them life, and sometimes it gives them death.

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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

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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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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.

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There is no authentic report of wolves ever having killed a human being in the Canadian North, although there must have been times when the temptation was well-nigh irresistible.

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After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

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The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

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Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Farley Mowat