Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

- Farley Mowat

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying m…

- Farley Mowat

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by…

- Farley Mowat

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 ruthl…

- Farley Mowat

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

- Farley Mowat

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 carib…

- Farley Mowat

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 G…

- Farley Mowat

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

- Farley Mowat

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

- Farley Mowat