Brian's Hunt Quotes

“We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.

It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“You eat the gut berries, you throw up. Don’t eat the gut berries.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“He had read somewhere that wolves could eat up to twenty pounds of meat in a single meal and he thought the dog was coming close. She . . . just . . . kept . . . eating.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“In some way, the dog filled a hole in his life, filled a loneliness he hadn’t even known existed, and he wondered if it had always been the same for men; if somewhere back in time in a cave a man took a wolf pup and sat him down and thought, There, my life is better now.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“It was all new, the bond, and he wondered how he could have lived his whole life and never had this, never had this closeness with another species, with a dog. It had been a great loss. He decided he would never be without a dog again.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“lily pads, sunfish and bluegills, good eating fish, and he’d have to catch”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“went into a state of overload and a kind of shock and open disbelief that people could actually live, or pretend to live, the way they did.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt

“Then she dropped like a stone and was asleep when her head hit the ground, sound asleep, gone. Brian smiled and squatted by the fire and studied the dog sleeping.”
― Gary Paulsen, Brian's Hunt