18 Quotes by Nick Jans

When we gaze into the adoring eyes of a canine companion, we're staring at the carefully muted and shaped soul of a wolf.

Love, not hate, is the burden we carry. But that fact makes it no lighter.

Whether we're a sport hunter or a bear viewer or we're Timothy Treadwell, it's all the same to the bear,

That doesn't mean that it's wrong, because that impulse is in all of us. But we need to understand that finally, all that the bear wants to do is be left alone. He doesn't want to be our friend.

We all have this deep-rooted fascination with the wild. It's as simple as feeding squirrels and pigeons on a park bench for some people.

We all have this deep-rooted fascination with the wild,

What they don't need is anybody taking care of them.

It was like that line in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' - 'Who ARE those guys?!'

There's very few people who are not fascinated by a wild animal that seems to recognize us, and bring us into their world. All Timothy Treadwell is and was is a more heightened and more intense version of that same impulse in ourselves.