“According to the Iroquois, when the Creator made the animals of the earth, He shot each one in the left hind leg so that humans would be able to catch them, but He missed the wolf.” — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“As healthy and viable populations of wild animals, wolves were gone from most of eastern North America long before the death of the last… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Deer needed predators to trim their numbers and keep them from destroying their environment, he said. To do away with predators such as wolves… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Even as they sought their destruction, many considered them [wolves] "possessed of near human intelligence," according Stanley Young, one so refined and subtle that… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“...they marveled at the animal's elusiveness, loyalty, and affection, its willingness to defend its territory; its stamina and ability to travel long distances and… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Writing to A. Brazier Howell, Murie admitted that he had grown "very fond of native mammals, amounting almost to a passion," and thought of… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“John Stanwell-Fletcher published an article in Natural History magazine, declaring that after spending three years in the Canadian wilderness, he believed more than any… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“One day during his time in the Southwest, Leopold and several companions chanced upon a female wolf ans shot her. "We reached the old… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“But Olson had learned that being a wolf advocate wasn't easy, for "the politics of wolf preservation and the science of studying wolves is… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“From that time forth, whenever a critical decision had to be made concerning the future, the Oneida considered "how much was enough and how… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Despite its misrepresentations, Mowat's book shattered many myths and untruths that had hung about the wolf's neck for centuries. Mowat's wolves weren't savage brutes,… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Quipped one frustrated Colorado rancher in the early 1920s, "Wolves have all been trapped at, shot at, and poisoned at so long that they… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“For centuries the wolf was North America's beast, an animal transmogrified into a mythic and blood-lustful killer, pursued by every conceivable means, reviled with… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
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