“But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.”
“Fate often enough will spare a man if his courage holds.”
“Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.”
“He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.”
“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”
“to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.”