The Howling Wolf: Wolf Quotes

Wolf Quotes

"We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!" -Durwood L. Allen

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -Rudyard Kipling

"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." -Robert Ghost Wolf

"Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf." -Aldo Leopold

"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 dire, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." -Aldo Leopold

"Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life." -Henry Beston

"The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared." -L. David Mech

"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." -L. David Mech

"They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavors and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life." -Judi Rideout

"Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and univerally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie. On three separate occasions in less than a week I had been completely at the mercy of these "savage killers"; but far from attempting to tear me limb from limb, they had displayed a restraint verging on contempt, even when I invaded their home and appeared to be posing a direct threat to the young pups." -Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf

"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 images of ourself." -Farley Mowat

"We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves" -Gerald Hausman

"The wolf is kept fed by its feet." -Russian Proverb

"How lonely is the night without the howl of a wolf." -Unknown

"Wolves may feature in our myths, our history, and our dreams, but they have their own future, their own loves, their own dreams to fulfill." -Anthony Miles

"The caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong." -Keewation (Inuit) Proverb

"Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon." -Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, v.1.379

"Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves." -Barry Lopez

"The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul." -Barry Lopez

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
-Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"