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- We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us…[They] cannot speak for themselves.
- The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
- [Animals] are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the first [animal] you see…you are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile, and a library of knowledge built on experience…what you are witnessing is not just biology, but a biography.
- Once we understood the manners we needed to have, their world suddenly opened up to us.
- It would be fitting, I think, if among the last manmade tracks on earth could be found the huge footprints of the great brown bear.
- If we can learn to live with bears, especially the grizzly, and if we can learn to accommodate the needs of bears in their natural environment, then maybe we can also find ways to use the finite resources of our continent and still maintain some of the diversity and natural beauty that were here when Columbus arrived.
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain...
- The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
- Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
- …. practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
- When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.
- Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it. They know that when a bear dies, something sacred in every living thing interconnected with that realm... also dies.
- There is greater safety in large parties. [My data shows] there were no attacks on parties of six people or more. Small parties generally make less noise to alert a grizzly of their presence at a distance, and small parties are less intimidating to a grizzly.
- Some bears that are startled by fast-traveling joggers and bikers run away. Some don't.
- Habituation to people is tied much more to specific locations, situations, and individuals than is generally realized.
- Black bears' lives are ruled by fear and food, in that order.
- A problem for bears is not so much what we don't know, it's what we think we know that isn't true.
- When a pine needle falls in the forest, the eagle sees it; the deer hears it, and the bear smells it.
- The more I study bears, the more variability I see, and the harder it is to answer questions about them. Individuals have different personalities, and much of the behavior of these intelligent animals is based on learning.
- Black bears are not the ferocious animals I once thought. They are characterized much more by restraint than ferocity.
- The biggest problem bears face is that they are demonized by hunting magazines, taxidermy with unnatural snarls, and excessive warnings written by government attorneys worried about liability problems.
- I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
- Every living being has something to teach us—if we are open to the lesson.
- The bears and the wilderness are your natural inheritance. Protect what you Love.
- Being witness to BEAR can feel wondrously overwhelming….that you are part of a world that is magical and sacred.
- Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.
- The intuitive knowledge in our hearts allows us to know bears as gentle and magnificent beings.
- Connecting with the wilderness allows us to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. Embracing this state of connectedness or Oneness with other living beings including animals, as opposed to feeling an “otherness” or “separateness” brings a sense of harmony and enables us to be at peace with oneself and the world.
- If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.
- Walk in kindness toward the Earth and every living being. Without kindness and compassion for all of Mother Nature's creatures, there can be no true joy; no internal peace, no happiness. Happiness flows from caring for all sentient beings as if they were your own family, because in essence they are. We are all connected to each other and to the Earth.
- Mother Nature is our teacher - reconnecting us with Spirit, waking us up and liberating our hearts. When we can transcend our fear of the creatures of the forest, then we become one with all that is; we enter a unity of existence with our relatives – the animals, the plants and the land that sustains us.
- Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their behalf ensuring their well-being and lives are respected and protected.
- Live in wonder; manifesting loving-kindness and compassion. Practice keeping your heart open to benefit all sentient beings.
- Coexistence is the language of Respect and Understanding. Everything else is a bad translation.
- A problem for bears is not so much what we don’t know, it’s what we think we know that isn’t true.
- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
- The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see.
- 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 on it, because it does.
- …just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time – surrendered to life.
- Animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see, and families to care for, just like you and me.
- Today more than ever before life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
- What is a man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected. This we know. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.
- …the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for man.
- When you are where wild bears live you learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.
- Being good shepherds of bears involves making [your food, your pet's food, the bird feeder, the garbage can] unavailable to bears, but it goes further than that. It also involves learning enough to know that it's okay to be 'top dog' to a bears. It doesn't 'insult' a bear to be put in its place; this happens to them most days with other bears, already. Not letting a bear graze in your front yard isn't 'harassing' it; it is merely asserting your personal space, something bears totally understand. You don't have to like bears to do these things; understanding these simple principles can help keep them out of your way, as well as saving their lives.
- Electric fences make for good bear neighbours.
- Even when bears are being fed, or feeding from birdfeeders, or panhandling from tourists, they are still bears so they will treat you like another bear. The problem is that bears are very physical with each other. Even though they may look and act like a big dog, a sudden miscommunication like trying to pet one may result in a sudden and unavoidable swat or bite. Bears, unlike dogs, take offense at being petted. Bears play by bear rules and know nothing of ours. Close contact between uniformed people and bears is a script for disaster. So the answer is straightforward: don’t get close.
- Some bears become experts at extracting food from human habitats. They haven’t necessarily lost their fear of humans as much as they have become skilled at observing our body language, a natural extension of the way they study each other. I once stood with a group of people watching a bear feeding from a bird feeder sixty feet away; people were talking, some had binoculars, and the bear couldn’t have cared less. But when I stared directly at him and took one step in his direction, he took off.
- Bears matter because they are sentient beings like us.
- Nature is our first mother. She nurtures us throughout our lives... we should all feel an obligation and responsibility towards Mother Nature.
- The question is no longer Do animals think? but What do animals think?
- I’m not an activist because I don’t want a revolution. I’m an advocate because I pray for evolution.
- We too need a place to live and thrive. If you protect wild spaces for bears and learn to live with us you are in fact protecting your own kind.
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