“It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your air quality in exchange for an enormous car.” — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.” — John Vaillant Copy Share
“I’ve read a tiger’s not dangerous, They say the tiger won’t attack But one thing’s not clear to me. Has he read this, too?… — John Vaillant Copy Share
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at… — John Vaillant Copy Share
“Tigers go by several different names here, and one of them is Toyota-because, during the 1990's, that is what you could buy with one.” — John Vaillant Copy Share
“To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.” — John Vaillant Copy Share
Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the… — John Vaillant Copy Share
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son… — John Vaillant Copy Share
“It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your… — John Vaillant Copy Share
A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone,… — John Vaillant Copy Share
“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte - millions of… — John Vaillant Copy Share
“Like Trush, Sheriff Gorunov is a born Alpha, a handsome, fire-breathing dragon of a man who smokes with an alarming vigor: cigarette clamped between… — John Vaillant Copy Share
“In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a… — John Vaillant Copy Share
