Doug Peacock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.
-- Doug Peacock

#Animal #Thinking #Temptation
You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.
-- Doug Peacock

#Writing #Thinking About You #Smell
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form...
-- Doug Peacock

#Loss #Track #World
I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.
-- Doug Peacock

#Eye #Missing #Mind
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.
-- Doug Peacock

#Land #Abiding #Wildlife
It ainâ€™t wilderness unless thereâ€™s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.
-- Doug Peacock

#Wilderness #Critters
The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads...in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything.
-- Doug Peacock

#Passion #Thinking #Important
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.
-- Doug Peacock

#Book #Winter #America
I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.
-- Doug Peacock

#Rose #Tree #Growth
It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.
-- Doug Peacock

#Wilderness #Critters

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