Animals Quote by Bruce Hampton

“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

“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

“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

“...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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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