Gay Salisbury

“The man-dog contract goes back to before the invention of writing, before the invention of the wheel, even before the invention of agriculture. In that sense, living with dogs may be one of the oldest surviving cultural landmarks of our heritage, a surviving fragment of the Stone Age.”
― Gay Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

“Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity,” London wrote in his short story “The White Silence,” but “…The most tremendous, the most stupefying of all, is the passive phase of the White Silence. All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slightest whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, affrighted at the sound of his own voice. Sole speck of life journeying across the ghostly wastes of a dead world, he trembles at his audacity, realizes that his is a maggot’s life, nothing more.”
― Gay Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic