40 Quotes by Farley Mowat

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we’ll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It’s delusion.

I believe in God the way my dog does.