Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, OCwas a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deerand Never Cry Wolf. The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 May 1921
CityBelleville, Canada
CountryCanada
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
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.
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.