If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. - -from a letter written by chief seattle of the suwamish tribe to President Franklin Pierce in 1855
We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!
I've always said that the best wolf habitat resides in the human heart. You have to leave a little space for them to live.
The timber wolves will be our friends We'll stay up late and howl, At the moon, till nighttime ends, Before going on the prowl
The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just non-fighting. Speak of the wolf and you will see its teeth.
Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember. We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
The caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong. - Keewation (Inuit) proverb
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
We reached the old wolf in time to watch the fierce green fire dying in her eyes... There was something new to me in those eyes-- something known only to her and the mountains. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch. I thought that because fewer wolves more deer that no wolves would mean hunter's paradise, but after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul.
Barry Lopez
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
Wolves may feature in our myths, our history and our dreams, but they have their own future, their own loves, their own dreams to fulfil.
The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes. ( GREAT QUOTE )
We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be.. the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer.. which is, in reality no more than a reflexed image of ourself. Throw me to the wolves because there's order in the pack.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'Easily'
They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavours and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life.
The wolf is kept fed by its feet.
Anyone who has ever heard it when the land was covered with a blanket of snow and elusively lighted by shimmering moonlight, will never forget the strange, trembling wolf cry.
How lonely is the night without the howl of a wolf.
Perhaps it was the eyes of the wolf, measured, calm, knowing.
Perhaps it was the intense sense of family.
After all, wolves mate for life, are
loyal partners, create hunting communities
and demonstrate affectionate patience in pup rearing.
Perhaps it was the rigid hierarchy of the packs.
Each wolf had a place in the whole and yet retained his individual personality.
Perhaps it was their great, romping, ridiculous sense of fun.
Perhaps it was some celestial link with the winter night skies
that prompted the wolf to lay his song on the icy air.
For the native people who lived with the wolves,
and the wolves once ranged from the Arctic to the sub-tropics,
there was much to learn from them.
Is it any wonder that the myths of many tribes characterize the wolves
not as killers but as teachers?
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little bit higher.
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest.
He who company with wolves learns to howl.
Last night I dreamed I was chasing a pack of wolves, trying to belong.