Wolf Quotes

"We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!" -Durwood L. Allen

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -Rudyard Kipling

"Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you-you will remember." -Robert Ghost Wolf

"Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf." -Aldo Leopold

"We reached the old wolf in time to watch the fierce green fire dying in her eyes. . . .There was something new to me in those eyes--- something known only to her and the mountains. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch. I thought that because fewer wolves more deer that no wolves would mean hunter's paradise, but after seeing the green fire dire, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." -Aldo Leopold

"Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life." -Henry Beston

"The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared." -L. David Mech

"If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes." -L. David Mech

"They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavors and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life." -Judi Rideout

"Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and univerally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie. On three separate occasions in less than a week I had been completely at the mercy of these "savage killers"; but far from attempting to tear me limb from limb, they had displayed a restraint verging on contempt, even when I invaded their home and appeared to be posing a direct threat to the young pups." -Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf

"We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be..the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer..which is, in reality no more than a reflexed images of ourself." -Farley Mowat

"We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves" -Gerald Hausman

"The wolf is kept fed by its feet." -Russian Proverb

"How lonely is the night without the howl of a wolf." -Unknown

"Wolves may feature in our myths, our history, and our dreams, but they have their own future, their own loves, their own dreams to fulfill." -Anthony Miles

"The caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong." -Keewation (Inuit) Proverb

"Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon." -Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, v.1.379

"Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves." -Barry Lopez

"The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul." -Barry Lopez

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
-from a letter written by chief seattle of the suwamish tribe to President Franklin Pierce in 1855
We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness. And we heard the jubilation of wolves!
Durwood L. Allen


I've always said that the best wolf habitat resides in the human heart. You have to leave a little space for them to live.
Ed Bangs


The timber wolves will be our friends We'll stay up late and howl, At the moon, till nighttime ends, Before going on the prowl
Calvin and Hobbes


The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just non-fighting.
Lois Crisler, 1958
Speak of the wolf and you will see its teeth.



Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember.
Robert Ghost Wolf
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Gerald Hausman


The caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong.
Keewation (Inuit) proverb


For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling


Only a mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.
Aldo Leopold


To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

Aldo Leopold


We reached the old wolf in time to watch the fierce green fire dying in her eyes... There was something new to me in those eyes-- something known only to her and the mountains. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch. I thought that because fewer wolves more deer that no wolves would mean hunter's paradise, but after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
Aldo Leopold


The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul.

Barry Lopez


Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
Barry Lopez


Wolves may feature in our myths, our history and our dreams, but they have their own future, their own loves, their own dreams to fulfil.
Anthony Miles


The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

L. David Mech


If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes. ( GREAT QUOTE )
L. David Mech


We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be.. the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer.. which is, in reality no more than a reflexed image of ourself.
Farely Mowat
Throw me to the wolves because there's order in the pack.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'Easily'


They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavours and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life.

Judi Rideout


The wolf is kept fed by its feet.
Russian Proverb


Anyone who has ever heard it when the land was covered with a blanket of snow and elusively lighted by shimmering moonlight, will never forget the strange, trembling wolf cry.

Unknown


How lonely is the night without the howl of a wolf.

Unknown


Perhaps it was the eyes of the wolf, measured, calm, knowing.
Perhaps it was the intense sense of family.
After all, wolves mate for life, are
loyal partners, create hunting communities
and demonstrate affectionate patience in pup rearing.
Perhaps it was the rigid hierarchy of the packs.
Each wolf had a place in the whole and yet retained his individual personality.
Perhaps it was their great, romping, ridiculous sense of fun.
Perhaps it was some celestial link with the winter night skies
that prompted the wolf to lay his song on the icy air.
For the native people who lived with the wolves,
and the wolves once ranged from the Arctic to the sub-tropics,
there was much to learn from them.
Is it any wonder that the myths of many tribes characterize the wolves
not as killers but as teachers?
Unknown


A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little bit higher.
Russian Proverb


A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner


If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Nikita Khrushchev


There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin


No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest.

Ilse Lehiste


He who company with wolves learns to howl.

Spanish Proverb


Last night I dreamed I was chasing a pack of wolves, trying to belong.

Edgar Cayce

The Legend Of Namush Chewia Up Date!

I will be posting Chapter 2 within a week so please check back for it!

How The Wolf Ritual Began

A long time ago, a young woman of the tribe, with three companions, was walking outside the village. They were going to a place called Tomak'cluh to look for ah-et's'l, a small plant whose roots they use for food. During the journey a Wolf went trotting across their path, strong and sleek and scarcely noticing the girls. The young woman said: "How handsome he is! I wish my husband, when I marry, could be as strong and as fearless." At nighttime the women went to sleep, and the Wolf came in. (The Wolves know everything and read the minds of human creatures). The girl did not know that he had come, but the Wolf woke the sleeping girl, and told her he was going to take her with him. Opening her eyes, she saw a fine young man standing before her..... The young woman went with the Wolf to his home in the mountain, and was there a long time. Two sons were born who grew up to be half Wolf and half man. The old father of the girl, meanwhile, did not know where his daughter had gone, and was greatly troubled. At her home they tried everywhere to find her, looking in vain in all sorts of places, until they grieved for her as dead. In the Wolf country the oldest son, grown to be a man, asked his mother why he looked different from the people around him (the Wolves). The mother had told him that he came from another place, and that there, far from where the Wolves live, dwelt her own father. Then the son asked when she was going home, because he wished very much to see what it was like there. So the woman told her husband that their son would like to see his grandfather. He finally agreed, but before they went, as a gift to his wife, the Wolf began to teach the woman about the Klukwana [the wolf ritual], which they had there. It was the Chief of Wolves that the woman have married and all the wolves came to the Chief's house to have Klukwana. When she had learned all about it, the Wolves came to take her away to her own village. They brought her to her father's house at night, and waited behind the other houses, but did not come near. The woman went in to wake her father, and began talking to him of a daughter he had lost, though she kept hidden who she was. She said she herself had a Wolf husband, and that she had with her two sons. The woman also told her father many things about the Wolves, and that the villagers must not do anything when the Wolves howled, or try to harm them. Instead they must try to learn from them. The old father had been much grieved because his daughter was dead, but he did not know her because it was nighttime and she was much changed after so many years. But at last had revealed herself to him and told him that now she was going to have a "song" of her own as a sign that the Wolves had brought her back and by which he might know her again. The father gathered his people and told them of his daughter's return. They heard the wolves outside and began to beat on long boards and sticks. The wolves howled four times and departed. Then the woman taught her father all about Klukwana, and the secrets she had learned from the Wolves as to their power and strength. After she had taught him all the songs and all the dances, the father began the Klukwana and later taught the rest of the tribe all that his daughter had learned from the Wolves

Great Wolf/Little Mouse Story

As told by Amy Modig, an Athabascan grandmother, who adapted it from Canadi~ns
Lionel and Germaine Kinunwa

One day Little Mouse Sister was outside her home when she heard someone crying.
Whoever was crying was really making a lot of noise, wailing and sobbing. Being soft­
hearted, she went to see what the ruckus was about.
Cautiously, she peeked over the hill and saw Great Wol f Brother crying as i fhi s heart
were breaking. She was so shocked, that she forgot her own safety and ran up to Great
Wol f Brother to ask what was the matter ..
I t seemed to Great Wol f Brother that he had been crying forever when he heard a small
voice calling out to him. He stopped to listen and he heard, "Oh Great Wol f Brother, why
does one so strong as you cry? What can possibly make such a powerful one as you cry?
I am your Little Mouse Sister and I will help i f I can."
He snorted, "I am crying because I have lost my eyes and I will never be able to see the
sun again or be able to hunt. My life is over. How can one so small as you help me?"
Little Mouse Sister said, "Oh, I cannot bear to see my magnificent brother so hurt and
grieved." She paused and then said, "You can have my eyes and then you can see how
beautiful the day is and go hunting once again."
So, jus t as she said, she gave him her eyes.
When Great Wol f Brother had her eyes, he could see again. He was so overjoyed he ran
and danced around and howled at the sun. He was so happy he chased his tail and did all
kinds of funny and joyful things.
Little Mouse Sister could no longer see him, but she could hear him and her heart was
glad. But she moved to one side so that he wouldn't accidentally jump on her in his
happiness.
After awhile, Great Wol f Brother came to thank Little Mouse Sister.
Suddenly he realized that because he could see, his)ittle sister could not and he felt great
sorrow.
"Little Sister, you have given my life back to me and there is nothing I could do to repay
you. But I have heard of the Sacred Lake where the Great Spirit lives. I will take you
there and you can ask Him what to do. I t
Little Mouse Sister thought that this sounded like a good idea and thanked her brother for
thinking of this. They began, what became a long and arduous Journey
They met many other brothers and sisters on their journey who had forgotten they were
part of the same family. The others tried to trick or distract Great Wol f Brother and Little
Mouse Sister; one even tried to tell them that there was no such thing as a Sacred Lake ..
But they continued their journey.
Finally, they came to a great lake that created a great shining all around i t and even Little
Mouse Sister knew that they were almost at the end of their quest.
"Great Wol f Brother, what do you see? I feel a great warmth over the land and I can
almost hear sacred singing."
"Little Mouse Sister, I see a great lake that sparkles and smiles in the sun. There are great
clouds over it that mist down and they dance with the waters of the lake but they never
block the sun. We have reached the Sacred Lake and I have a great need to pray in
thanksgiving. "
Together they prayed.
After they were done, Great Wol f Brother said, "Little Mouse Sister, our journey is over
and I must leave so that you can speak to the Great Spirit. But, i f you ever have need of
me, call me. Wherever I am and whatever I am doing, my heart will hear you and I will
come. Your heart is pure and I know the Great Spirit will speak to you, but my grateful
prayers will always be with you whenever I look upon our beautiful earth."
With that, he left and returned to his own land. Little Mouse Sister was by herself.
Little Mouse Sister then turned to the Sacred Lake and lifted her hands. "Oh Great Spirit,
I have come a long way to be here. My strong brother, Great Wol f Brother, brought me. I
have come here because ... "
Little Mouse Sister stopped. She suddenly felt a great presence and even in her darkness,
she saw a great light. She almost felt afraid but then she felt such happiness that she
began to cry and forgot why she had come.
A Voice spoke and it filled the universe, "Little Mouse Sister, I know why you've come
and you have brought me great joy. "
The Voice said, "Jump."
Without hesitation, Little Mouse Sister jumped. The Voice said, "Jump higher!"
And she jumped higher. The Voice said, "Jump even higher,"
Little Mouse Sister jumped as hard as she could and then she felt her arms tingle and
spread and her legs grew strong. Suddenly she could see. She looked down and she had
jumped high over the Sacred Lake. She looked at her own body. She had become a Great
Eagle.
"Because you have learned what it means to love beyond yourself, I have given you the
gift of great vision. Arid because you have true humility, you can see the hearts of your
brothers and sisters and you will guide and encourage with great wisdom."

Wildlife In Colorado

" The Legend "

Many years ago the tale of a great white wolf haunting the wilderness of Mohegan Mountain spread down from many generations, and each time the tale is told it is more exaggerated and fearful than the last. In the late 1800's a 6yr old Indian boy whom they called "Little Bear Running Foot" crept out of his bed in the middle of the night and wondered away from the camp into the wilderness of Mohegan Mountain never to be seen again. After weeks of searching and finding nothing the tribe concluded the boy had fallen victim to the great white wolf " Namush Chewia " and from that point on engaged a promise that if any man sees a wolf they must not take chances and kill it on sight.

The following story might encourage you to draw up your own conclusion of the truth, but I ask my readers that when retelling the story please boost in moderation.

I would also like to express that I'm not a professional writer...but you really don't have to be to tell a good story.

Please feel free to comment and leave your input as the story unfolds. It is in my opinion that when all is said and done, the conclusion may have more of an impact in the judgement of man than we have ever hoped for.


(Part 1)

"Chasen Bear"

The panting grew louder and heavier as 7 yr old Micha ran fearsly through the open pass of Mohegan Mountain. His little legs were tiring and the bear was gaining on him. Help! Micha screamed with his breathless voice as he stumbled to the ground.... suddenly a shot rang out and Micha's little body lay curled up like ball shivering in fear. He sobbed louder and louder until he heard his fathers gentle voice,

Micha! I thought I told you to stop chasen bear with that sling, one of these days your gonna get killed...

But pa.. Micha wined that bear was different, it mighta been rabid or somethen cuz it didn't run off when I got'em with my slingshot..

You're right son! that bear was for sure different ...cuz you done angered  a grizzley!

While heading back to camp, Micha's father took the sling shot and broke it in half. He told Micha he was grounded and never to touch another sling shot until he matures.
Micha felt so bad that he hadn't said a word to anyone for two days.
Micha is an only child, his mother Pearl and his father William... both Mohegan, were born and raised on Mohegan Mountain . The old legend story helped William in making his decision to punish Micha in hopes that it will teach Micha the same wisdom and family values he himself learned as a child.
William was becoming worried over Micha's silence and needed to put an end to it.

Micha! his father called..., common out here...we need to talk about this.

Micha didn't answer and his father called him again... telling him that if he doesn't answer he will have to discipline  him,  But there was still no answer. It was after 9pm and William was thinking that maybe Micha had gotten tired and fallen asleep but upon opening the door to Michas room he had found it to empty with no sign of Micha anywhere.

Pearl! William yelled with panic in voice as he reached for his shotgun , ..Micha's missing..

Pearl could hardly reply as thoughts of the old legend at that point seemed to be a case of deja vu.

Both of them searched the cabin and nearby pass calling out Micha's name...with no reply.
As the hours past William gathered a few friends and neighbors to join in the search and still a few hours later "nothing"...

We need to get some sleep..said Danial a very true and close friend of Williams, we can start fresh in the morn.

If you want to give up than do so William snapped... but I'm not stoppin til I find my son.

Danial grabbed William's shoulder with a firm friendly grip and said Listen! If any of that legend is true, ..you ain't gonna be much help to that boy if your half a sleep!

Everyone especially William and pearl were tired and stressed out, fearing the worse, but they knew Danial was right.

(Part2)

" Lost "

The wind whistled gently as it move through the trees and the sun was making its presence known as it rose to the top of the highest branches.

The leaves filled the ground with a delightful mixture of colors changing the surroundings of the forest to an unfamiliar place and yet each direction looks the same from the large hollowed out log that lay within the center of the area. A deep yawn was heard from inside as it toggled back and forth....and soon Micha had crawled his way out.

He watched as nature put on a natural show....the birds chirped and the woodpecker pecked... squirrels frolicked from here to there and the branches tapped their wilderness tune. Soon a faded thumping sound could be heard beyond the trees, Micha tried to see what it was but he could only hear it getting closer and as it grew closer he could feel the ground beneath him beat.

Micha was thinking it may be his father looking for him, but his little heart raced with fear when he saw a large dark object moving fast into his view, just then ....there in front of him was the huge grizzly bear that chased him only a few days before. The same grizzly bear that Micha had shot a rock at with his sling.

Hmmm! I myself is kind of wondering what Micha's gonna do now, since he really has no where to run and since bears are good climbers.....climbing up a tree is out of the question.

Micha froze as the tears built, he couldn't scream and the grizzly was headed right for him. His tiny little legs weakened and his shaky voice whimpered ....Help!...help!

Just as the grizzly stood straight on his hind legs, the mean angry eye's joined his wide jaw that revealed his powerful teeth as he raised his large arm in swing motion, suddenly Micha had been knocked to the ground by a large white wolf that darted out of nowhere.
Micha covering his face too afraid to look while the eerie sounds of growling, snorting and whining joined the scuffles and the feel of two large beasts being slammed around.
What had seemed to go on forever had finally ended.

Slowly removing the hands from his face.. Micha's face went from an expression of fear to shock when he saw the the great white wolf standing a few feet away from him next to the still body of the grizzly bear.


( Part 3 )

" The Search Is On And The Wolf Is Hungry "


See Chapter Two "> Tab at top of page!