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Top 25 Farley Mowat Quotes (2025 Update)

Farley Mowat Quote: “Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

1. “Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”

2. “We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.”

3. “And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.”

4. “The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!”

5. “I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.”

6. “It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “You never know when the devil might come calling.”

7. “You never know when the devil might come calling.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we’ll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It’s delusion.”

8. “We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we’ll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It’s delusion.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Truth I have no trouble with, it’s the facts I get all screwed up.”

9. “Truth I have no trouble with, it’s the facts I get all screwed up.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “I believe in God the way my dog does.”

10. “I believe in God the way my dog does.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Don’t make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...”

11. “Don’t make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.”

12. “Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country – but not with blanks.”

13. “After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country – but not with blanks.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.”

14. “The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered... only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.”

15. “Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered... only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.”

16. “Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “There was no other wanderer on that road, yet I was not alone, for his tracks went with me, each pawprint as familiar as the print of my own hand. I followed them, and I knew each thing that he had done, each move that he had made, each thought that had been his; for so it is with two who live one life together.”

17. “There was no other wanderer on that road, yet I was not alone, for his tracks went with me, each pawprint as familiar as the print of my own hand. I followed them, and I knew each thing that he had done, each move that he had made, each thought that had been his; for so it is with two who live one life together.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “If you are going to be a big personality, you’ve got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.”

18. “If you are going to be a big personality, you’ve got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “I have to go on writing because I wouldn’t be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.”

19. “I have to go on writing because I wouldn’t be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Then he jumped up and shouted.”

20. “Then he jumped up and shouted.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.”

21. “Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “The new plan looked like the answer.”

22. “The new plan looked like the answer.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.”

23. “Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “I write every day. I’m always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.”

24. “I write every day. I’m always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.”

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Farley Mowat Quote: “I’ll braid you one.”

25. “I’ll braid you one.”

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