Brett Roehr > Brett's Quotes

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
― Rachel Carson

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to the white man is an 'unbroken wilderness.'

But for us there was no wilderness, nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. Our faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

For us, the world was full of beauty; for the other, it was a place to be endured until he went to another world.

But we were wise. We knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard.”
― Chief Luther Standing Bear

“A unjust law, is no law at all.”
― Martin Luther, Bibelausgaben, Die Bibel nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers, mit Apokryphen, Neue Rechtschreibung, Schwarz

“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."

[Isaiah 43:2]”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts," - Isaiah 55:8-9”
― Holy Bible : New International Version

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I'll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
― Jesus Christ

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
― John Muir

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.”
― Edward Abbey

“To all creatures in range, the howl was a reminder that the wolf was always on the prowl. To the caribou, the wolf's howl was a sound of horror. For thousands of years, the presence of the wolf had kept them moving from one location to another. With every howl, the caribou remained vigilant.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Tulok feared something horrific was moving through the mountains and forests. Tall creatures that carried sticks that made loud noises, able to fire sharp hot objects into any living things. Tall creatures that killed predator and prey alike, and did not value wolves as families or individuals. This was a recurring nightmare Tulok had experienced several times recently. Was it becoming a grim omen? He wondered.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“There was a time in the distant past, generations ago, before the killers arrived in the valley of the Yukon River when gunshots were never heard and when wolf families were abundant and intact. Family ties were strong, long-standing hunting strategies were forged, and wolves lived for many years. Many generations ago, these wolves were occasionally stalked by hunters with spears, but the arrival of the tall figures brought an unprecedented onslaught of disease, poisoning, and killing. Everything changed after they disrupted the balance of nature.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Tulok never lived in a time when this land was an unspoiled wilderness. The present world was the only world he knew - a world of traps, poison, guns, and premature death.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Wherever she and her family went was where he would go, and whatever happened to them would happen to him. Her family was his family and their trouble was his trouble. If they suffered, he would suffer with them and if they died, he would die with them.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Once the other wolves had eaten and settled to rest, Arnaaluk rolled in the grass, celebrating her first caribou kill. She climbed to a ledge on a nearby mountainside overlooking the other wolves. Resting under the twilight sky, the cool breeze resonated on her black fur. Howling in victory from her lofty position, she proclaimed her first kill to her family, and to every creature in range. Now she could prove herself a worthy hunter to the other wolves in her family.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Once she finished scuffling with her brothers, Arnaaluk yawned, resting her haunches in the grass. As she looked to the rising sun following the short summer night, Kiviaq huddled next to her. The two wolves gazed on the stunning panorama. Closeness beamed over them like the warmth of the sun's rays on a cool morning.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Tulok laid his head on Kanak's neck. "Please, Kanak!" he whimpered, "Let me free you! Please come home with me! We can make things right between us.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Once the apparition had vanished, Tulok howled again. A mystery resonated through his howl, causing all who heard to still their thoughts and listen. It was a howl of sadness, demanding understanding, a howl challenging those who heard to reject the myths, tales, hate, and fear, and learn the true nature of the wolf.”
― Brett Roehr, The Yukon Wolf

“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien