Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing.

Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.