“It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.” MenWantDoeAnimalImagine Book:Of Wolves and Men Source: Of Wolves and Men
“I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.” WorldSometimesAnimalKnowingBloodShareLaysHungerTiesSaltEerieKnowing Something Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?” StillsLastsAnimalLandEatingForgivingMatesGarbageLiving OnScrap Book:Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories Source: Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.” ThinkingLongStillsFeelingsLightFallGrowsAnimalLandSummerSpringBreathsSouthBreathingComes And GoesDepartureMigration Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
