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 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 MowatAnd 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 caribou strong.
Farley MowatWe have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be โthe mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer โ which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
Farley Mowat