Guy de la Valdene

“If religion is meant to save, to awe. to cleanse, to fortify, then my faith is found at the tops of mountains and in the secrecy of woods, in the cradle of rivers and at the bottom of the sera. i find in the solitude of nature reason and purpose. i have slept with solitude for so long that i have made her my friend, my accomplice. she follows me in the fields, the woods, the rivers, faithful as a shadow.”
― Guy de la Valdene, The Fragrance of Grass

“They want nature to be restored, but fight against one of nature’s fundamental rules. In nature, the cruelty displayed by the hunter is a passing moment, an accepted entity, the reason why animals do not grow old in the wild. Yet the animal-rights people plod on, entrenched in their own vision of a world that never existed, a world they have conjured up with the same religious fanaticism of the deer whackers. Nature suffers while these extremes in stupidity argue and howl at each other with the fervor and rage of the mentally imbalanced.”
― Guy de la Valdene, For a Handful of Feathers