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

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

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 most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

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

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.