Farley Mowat famous quotes

04-17-2025

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be â€“the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer â€“ which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
-- Farley Mowat

#Animal #Reality #Savages
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
-- Farley Mowat

#Men #Causes #Without A Trace
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
-- Farley Mowat

#Animal #Men #Quality
And 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 Mowat

#Strong
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
-- Farley Mowat

#Country #Canada #Hell
Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
-- Farley Mowat

#Son #Lakes #Sea
I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
-- Farley Mowat

#Way #Facts
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...
-- Farley Mowat

#Arbitrary #Fiction #Bigs
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
-- Farley Mowat

#Writing #Goes On #Able
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
-- Farley Mowat

#Character #Personality #Gimmicks
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
-- Farley Mowat

#Writing #People #Ontario
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
-- Farley Mowat

#Fun #Men #Differences
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
-- Farley Mowat

#Canada #Harper #Dangerous
Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.
-- Farley Mowat

#Dog #Travel #Boys
You never know when the devil might come calling.
-- Farley Mowat

#Devil #Calling #Might
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
-- Farley Mowat

#Past #Darkness #Our Past
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
-- Farley Mowat

#Book #Writing #Lasts
We'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 Mowat

#Errors #Important #Lasts
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
-- Farley Mowat

#Writing #Function
I believe in God the way my dog does
-- Farley Mowat

#Dog #Believe #Doe

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