On my 70th birthday, I was ...

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?
 See image
 Farley Mowat

Quotes from the same author

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
 See image
 Farley Mowat
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
 See image
 Farley Mowat
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
 See image
 Farley Mowat