Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.” — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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