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Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness QUOTES

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness QUOTES

1 " The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

2 " I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

3 " The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

4 " Traditional Blackfeet saw the natural world in terms of awe and mystery. Animals lived in metaphorical relationships to them; the creatures were other nations. Every plant and animal passed coded information to man. Part of the price western science has paid for analytical power is that it has transformed the natural world into something alien. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

5 " Humans are strongly discouraged fro comparing their lives with those of other animals. Yet everything I had experienced taught me that metaphor is the fundamental path of imagining, a first line of inquiry into the lives of other creatures that sheds light on our own. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

6 " The only species of animal that tries to get by in the wilderness without interspecific tact of communication is the human critter. "

― Doug Peacock , Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness