07-03-2017, 12:00 AM
watergaze wrote:. . . (coincidentally, the first female wolf sighting happened in the same year that I arrived . . .
One of my favorite books about the wolf is Never Cry Wolf (I read that when I was in my early teens), which help in debunking the ignorant/silly ideas about wolves. . . . Why do I say this? Because it was like a real life version of Never Cry Wolf for me
The deluge of letters received by the Canadian Wildlife Service from concerned citizens opposing the killing of wolves testifies to the growing significance of literature as a protest medium. Modern Canadians roused to defend a species that their predecessors sought to eradicate. By the 1960s the wolf had made the transition from the beast of waste and desolation (in the words of Theodore Roosevelt) to a conservationist cause celebre....Never Cry Wolf played a key role in fostering that change.— Karen Jones, "Never Cry Wolf: Science, Sentiment, and the Literary Rehabilitation of Canis Lupus", The Canadian Historical Review vol.84 (2001)
I love coincidences
What a beautiful lesson Never Cry Wolf offers. An awareness that all that is misunderstood is often thought of as dark or bad. For me, I view the wolves in the story as the mental health field where there are so many creative geniuses labeled as "different, undeserving, unvalued, misunderstood, unwanted" the list goes on. Society largely doesn't know what to do with people who fall under the diagnosis of "mentally-ill". There's nothing wrong with these people, they don't require fixing. They merely require unconditional love and encouragement, just like the rest of humanity. There are many groups who are misunderstood the way the wolves were and it's very cool to see that a book (literature) is what opened the gate to expanding human insight into the realm of nature. Now if only we would do that for every dark and misunderstood aspect of life, humanity may learn something lol. We might even discover there's no such thing as "bad".
Thanks for supporting the wolves
One of my favorite books about the wolf is Never Cry Wolf (I read that when I was in my early teens), which help in debunking the ignorant/silly ideas about wolves. . . . Why do I say this? Because it was like a real life version of Never Cry Wolf for me
The deluge of letters received by the Canadian Wildlife Service from concerned citizens opposing the killing of wolves testifies to the growing significance of literature as a protest medium. Modern Canadians roused to defend a species that their predecessors sought to eradicate. By the 1960s the wolf had made the transition from the beast of waste and desolation (in the words of Theodore Roosevelt) to a conservationist cause celebre....Never Cry Wolf played a key role in fostering that change.— Karen Jones, "Never Cry Wolf: Science, Sentiment, and the Literary Rehabilitation of Canis Lupus", The Canadian Historical Review vol.84 (2001)
I love coincidences
What a beautiful lesson Never Cry Wolf offers. An awareness that all that is misunderstood is often thought of as dark or bad. For me, I view the wolves in the story as the mental health field where there are so many creative geniuses labeled as "different, undeserving, unvalued, misunderstood, unwanted" the list goes on. Society largely doesn't know what to do with people who fall under the diagnosis of "mentally-ill". There's nothing wrong with these people, they don't require fixing. They merely require unconditional love and encouragement, just like the rest of humanity. There are many groups who are misunderstood the way the wolves were and it's very cool to see that a book (literature) is what opened the gate to expanding human insight into the realm of nature. Now if only we would do that for every dark and misunderstood aspect of life, humanity may learn something lol. We might even discover there's no such thing as "bad".
Thanks for supporting the wolves