We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

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.