Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees.. To make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929
John Vaillant
(.)Fate has alÂways been a poÂtent force in RusÂsia, where, for genÂerÂations, citÂizens have had litÂtle conÂtrol over their own desÂtinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as ZaÂitÂsev, Dvornik, and OnofreÂcuk had disÂcovÂered, it can alÂso be a tiger.
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Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [.].
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Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others.
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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.
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