Wolves of Minong Quotes

“Each of our devoted investigators has had to protest the critical importance to science and the surpassing conveniences offered by the cabin: How well the hill-and-dale floor is held together by layered patches of variegated linoleum; how nicely the roof admits starlight and yet keeps out much of the rain; how smoothly the door opens when you lift firmly on the knob; how ideally the two one-room accessory structures serve as “slave” quarters for summer assistants. And what would befall the local ward of dependent woodmice if the cabin commissary were to fail?”
― Durward L. Allen, Wolves of Minong: Isle Royale's Wild Community

“It is becoming evident that, as we use this earth, enough of it will need to remain in a natural state so that its energy exchange can operate in the long established manner. But we seem deadly intent on converting everything to some new design. Man has never yet created a self operating ecosystem, and he can only botch up the ones we have.”
― Durward L. Allen, Wolves of Minong: Isle Royale's Wild Community

“The acuity required for survival is a matter of necessity and practice - and also degree. One might learn more than all mankind has learned of this and other mysteries if he could see through the eyes of a wolf for a single day.”
― Durward L. Allen, Wolves of Minong: Isle Royale's Wild Community

“A few have urged that carnivore atrocities be brought under some kind of civilized control. In fact, that would require creatures of nature to conform to moral standards that refined human beings have sought vainly to enforce upon their own kind”
― Durward L. Allen, Wolves of Minong: Isle Royale's Wild Community