The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

- John Vaillant

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

- John Vaillant

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

- John Vaillant

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,…

- John Vaillant

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…

- John Vaillant

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking …

- John Vaillant

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

- John Vaillant

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

- John Vaillant

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is des…

- John Vaillant