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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey—even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.
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Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."
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The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.
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What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
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From the point of view of physics, all of us are rebels because we spend our lives actively subverting the forces of gravity and entropy, two of the fundamental laws to which all earthly matter must ultimately answer.
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A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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John Vaillant is an American writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books.
Known for:
The Golden Spruce
The Jaguar's Children
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