It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Farley MowatWe'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 God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Farley MowatStephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
Farley MowatOn 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 mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?
Farley Mowat