Ernest Thompson Seton

“The stars are the street-lamps of the wilderness.”

“The life of a wild animal is a series of perils.”

“Because I have known the torment of thirst, I would dig a well where others may drink.”

“The real way to know a wolf is not to see it in a cage, but to live with it in its own land.”

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

“Woodcraft is the first of all the sciences. It was the science of the first man, and it will be the science of the last.”

“The book of nature is an open book that we can all read, if we but will.”

“I have tried to emphasize our kinship with the animals by showing that they are creatures with wants and feelings differing in degree only from our own.”

“We are all feathers from the same wing.”

“For the wild animal there is no such thing as a natural death.”

“The real story of the wild animal is a tragedy.”

“To know the creature you must go to its own chosen haunt.”