“No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”

“That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.”

“Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.”

“What don’t we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals – domestication it’s called – but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will. When wild animals fight us, it is out of sheer desperation. They fight when they feel they have no other way out.”

“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.”

“As healthy and viable populations of wild animals, wolves were gone from most of eastern North America long before the death of the last animals.”