"When
all the dangerous cliffs
are fenced off, all
the trees that might
fall on people are cut
down, all of the insects
that bite have been
poisoned ... and all
of the bears are dead
because they are occasionally
dangerous, the wilderness
will not be made safe.
Rather, the safety will
have destroyed the wilderness."
-
R. Yorke Edwards (Canadian
environmentalist)
"Bears
keep me humble. They
help me to keep the
world in perspective
and to understand where
I fit on the spectrum
of life. We need to
preserve the wilderness
and its monarchs for
ourselves, and for the
dreams of children.
We should fight for
these things as if our
life depended upon it,
because it does."
-
Wayne Lynch ("Bears:
Monarchs of the Northern
Wilderness", 1993)
