Lois Crisler famous quotes

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.
-- Lois Crisler

#Wildlife #Wilderness #Scenery

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

#Eye #Intelligent #Noble

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

#Smell #Quality #Species

Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.
-- Lois Crisler

#Balance #Wheels #Wildlife

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.
-- Lois Crisler

#Running #Distance #Waiting

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.

Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.