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

“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”

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

“And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need.”

“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.”

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