John Vaillant

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowardice is [..].

— John Vaillant

“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”

— John Vaillant

“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…

— John Vaillant

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger…

— John Vaillant

“Tigers go by several different names here, and one of them is Toyota-because, during the 1990's, that is what you could buy…

— John Vaillant

“To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.”

— John Vaillant

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself…

— John Vaillant

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to…

— John Vaillant

“It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or…

— John Vaillant

“Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved”

— John Vaillant

A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are…

— John Vaillant

“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte -…

— John Vaillant

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

— John Vaillant

“Like Trush, Sheriff Gorunov is a born Alpha, a handsome, fire-breathing dragon of a man who smokes with an alarming vigor: cigarette…

— John Vaillant

“In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to…

— John Vaillant

“... humans are simply zombie hosts obediently disseminating their seeds, tubers, sparks, and gasses around the globe. In the end, the geologic…

— John Vaillant

“There is a saying among the peoples of the Northwest Coast: “The world is as sharp as the edge of a knife,”…

— John Vaillant

“He takes two tea bags in a four-ounce cup and he doesn’t mince words: when a pair of earnest British journalists once…

— John Vaillant

“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow.…

— John Vaillant

“The tiger’s world, by contrast, is not only amoral but peculiarly consequence-free, and this-the atavistic certainty that there is nothing more lethal…

— John Vaillant

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window.…

— John Vaillant

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.

— John Vaillant

“(..)Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate…

— John Vaillant

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

— John Vaillant

“By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will…

— John Vaillant