John Vaillant Quotes

• A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?

  John Vaillant

  People, Doe, Done

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.82, Vintage

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• The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

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  Hundred, Tigers

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.51, Vintage

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• The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

  John Vaillant

  Fall, Impact, Piano

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• The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

  John Vaillant

  Long, Track, Firsts

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• Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

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  Successful, Animal, Hunting

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

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  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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• Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

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  Cows, Sin

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.16, Vintage

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• Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

  John Vaillant

  Chaos, Economic, Policy

  "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival". Book by John Vaillant, August 24, 2010.

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• What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

  John Vaillant

  Whales, Answers, Lions

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