Beautiful, strong, smart, prudent, dexterous, insidious, ferocious, fair … There are a lot of epithets, and yet a rather contradictory series is built up. Yes, they are afraid of him, and at the same time they admire him. His name is a symbol of wisdom, courage and rebellion. His image is inextricably linked with the other world. Songs are dedicated to him; fairy tales, legends, and traditions are written about him. Who is he? Wolf.
Negative hero
What does a man know about a wolf? Not really a lot. In our view, this is a dangerous predator living in forests. He is fierce, treacherous, treacherous. But is it really so? Unfortunately, and perhaps fortunately, we do not have the opportunity to look into wolf eyes every day to understand, to feel its essence. There is only one way out - to lift the veil of secrecy and plunge into the mysterious wolf world through scientific literature and fiction. Quotes about wolves will help to cope with this task.
The wolf basically faces one deadly sin - ruthlessness. The English writer Jack London called him "a land shark." Indeed, in the wild, he is the perfect “hunter” - fierce, cunning, with a literally sixth sense of danger, able to track down prey, possessing the gift of patience. And most importantly, everyone has their own character. Rudyard Kipling, describing the habits of a gray predator, admired his ability to sneak as silently as no creature in the world. American writer Alice Hoffman likened the wolf to love. The first - they cannot be tamed, trained or trained, and the second - they both prowl in the thickets, on their minds, without fear of the troubles and destruction they are doing. Subtle figurative comparison, right?
Moral justification
Quotes about wolves are often justified. For example, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin asks not to blame the "forest robber" for his atrocities. He cannot live in the world without depriving his stomach. This is the essence of it. And he does not understand all that horror committed by him, he does not feel it. He only knows that he lives. The horse’s mission, for example, is to carry heavy loads, cows to give milk, and to him to kill. Everyone "lives", each in his own way, as he knows …
We continue to read quotes about wolves. No less fair to the wolf and writer Ilya Ehrenburg. He recalls the famous dictum of Plaut - “Man to man is a wolf”, which describes the moral of a society built on greed, self-interest, cruelty. And here he reproaches the author for such an unworthy use of the image of a predator. Why? Yes, because wolves very rarely fight among themselves and people are attacked in the most extreme case, when wild hunger drives them crazy. The civilized world is more like the wild world of animals. More than once or twice we watched when a person can torture, kill without any need. It's time for predators to make an aphorism in which a wolf is a wolf - a man.
