“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.” NaturePage 147 Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North
“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.” NatureConservationPolar BearsPage 191 Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North
